Pushkin 1999

[J.M. Andrew]

        TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN

        A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
        to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
        under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

        Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK

We are pleased to announce this conference.  About thirty papers will be
delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to
celebrate the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia's national - and
greatest - writer.  These papers  will offer new readings of most of
Pushkin's key works.  At the same time they will seek to locate him both
within the later traditions of Russian literature, by means of a series of
comparative discussions, and the broader European context, with examinations
of his influence on, or parallels with non-Russian writers.  In keeping with
the traditons of the Neo-Formalist Circle, which celebrates its own more
modest, thirtieth anniversary in 2000, all the papers will be informed with
the latest thinking and approaches in literary theory and practice.

The following are the proposed papers, all confirmed at the present time.
For further information contact Joe Andrew or Robert Reid at
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk or r.e.reid at lang.keele.ac.uk.  Further details
of the precise programme, booking forms etc will be available in June.

1.  Robin Aizlewood (SSEES): The 'Stone Guest' and the 'Alter Ego': Doubling
and Redoubling Germann in The Queen of Spades

2.  Joe Andrew (Keele):  [She] was brought up on French novels and,
consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin

3.  David Baguley (Durham): Pushkin and Merimee: the French Connection

4.  David Bethea (Wisconsin):  A Higher Audacity': How to Read Pushkin's
Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest

5.  Sander Brouwer (Groningen): Love in the Russian World: Erotic and Social
Unproductivity from Pushkin to Turgenev

6.  Diana L.  Burgin (Massachusetts): Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins

7.  Leon Burnett (Essex): Sovereign Rapture:  The Enigma of Pushkin's
Cleopatra

8.  J.  Douglas Clayton (Ottawa): Word Order in Russian Poetry: Evgenii
Onegin between Poetry and Prose

9.  Neil Cornwell (Bristol): Pushkin and Henry James

10.  Jusin Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin):  Pechal' moia svetla': The
Pushkin Contexts of Georgy Ivanov's Raspad atoma

11.  Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh):  Casting and Recasting the Caucasian
Captive

12.  Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Verse Insertions in Pushkin's Prose

13.  Andre G.F. van Holk (Groningen): Don-Juanism and Stylistic Code in
Pushkin's The Stone Guest

14.  Samantha Johnson (Keele):  Pushkin at Keele: Grand Duke Michael and
Countess Torby at Keele, 1901-1910.

15.  Mike Kirkwood (Glasgow): Pushkin as Neo-Formalist: Domik v Kolomne

16.  Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu, Estonia): Pushkin and Shakhovskoi: the problem
of creative contacts

17.  Monica Lebron (Goldsmiths, University of London): French Perspectives
on Pushkin's Don Juan

18.  Angela Livingstone (Essex):  The Grammar of Poetry': Semantics of Case
in Poems by Pushkin

19.  Barbara Lonnqvist (Abo, Finland): The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina

20.  Arnold Mcmillin (SSEES): Gilding the Lily: Pushkin's Lyrics in the
Hands of Russian Composers

21.  Marguerite Palmer (Keele): Pushkin's Beatrice: the Process of
Beatification in Eugene Onegin

22.  Valentina Polukhina (Keele):  Pushkin and Brodsky:  the Art of
Self-deprecation.

23.  Robert Reid (Keele): 'A Hundred Years Have Passed...': A Dilthean
Approach to Time in Pushkin

24.  Alastair Renfrew (Strathclyde): Making a National Poet: Pushkin and
Burns

25.  Olga Sedakova (Moscow): Pushkin's Christian Roots

26.  Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts (Cornell): From Pushkin to
Nabokov:The Vicissitudes of One Exegetic Tradition

27.  Alexandra Smith (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Revisiting
Pushkin's Poetic Image of Imperial Petersburg

28.  William Mills Todd III (Harvard): Pushkin's Istoriia Pugacheva and the
Experience of History

29.  Christoph Veldhues (Bochum): Love and Death in Nabokov's Death and
Pushkin's The Stone Guest

30.  Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Pushkin between Classicism, Romanticism
and Realism

31.  Jekaterina Young (Manchester): Dovlatov's  Sanctuary and Pushkin