Book Series: Russian and European Literature

Wed Jan 31 16:48:13 UTC 2001

Harwood Academic Publishers is pleased to present volumes 1--4 of the 

     RUSSIAN  AND  EUROPEAN  LITERATURE  SERIES

Series Editors: Peter I. Barta and David Shepherd

Brief details of the books are given below. For further details please go
to:

http://catalog.gbhap-us.com/fc3/catalog?/series/TITREC_0000219

Please direct any queries to Felicia Bromfield, Marketing Associate:
felicia.bromfield at gbmis.gbhap.com

Volume 1

RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND THE CLASSICS 

Edited by Peter I. Barta, David H.J. Larmour and Paul Allen Miller

To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of
antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to
offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the
influence which the Classics have had on Russian literature at particularly
significant junctures, such as the beginning of the nineteenth century, the
age of the great Russian realist novel, the "Silver Age", Stalin's terror,
the "Thaw" after 1956, and the period just before the collapse of Soviet
society. In their introductory essay, the editors offer an overview of the
Classical tradition and provide an insight into the contrasting ways in
which that tradition manifested itself in the literatures of Western Europe
and of Russia.

FOR CONTENTS: Please go to the above web site

1996 <> 190pp
Cloth ISBN: 3-7186-0605-4
Paper ISBN: 3-7186-0606-2

Volume 2

THE CONTEXTS OF BAKHTIN: PHILOSOPHY, AUTHORSHIP, AESTHETICS 

Edited by David Shepherd

The fourteen essays collected in this volume share a concern with the
contexts to which we need to refer in order to understand not only the
origins, but also the potential, of Mikhail Bakhtin's thought: contexts both
immediate and oblique, personal and impersonal, intellectual and
theoretical. Five of the essays are by well-known Russian scholars whose
work on Bakhtin has not previously been translated into English; the other
nine papers are by established and emerging Bakhtin specialists in North
America, the United Kingdom and Europe.

CONTENTS

* Preface

LIFE, PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
* People Not of Our Time, Iudif' Kagan
* Two of a Small Fraternity? Points of Contact and Departure in the 
Works of Bakhtin and Kagan up to 1924, Ruth Coates
* The Nevel School of Philosophy (Bakhtin, Kagan and Pumpianskii) 
Between 1918 and 1925: Materials from Pumpianskii's Archive, Nikolai
Nikolaev

AUTHORSHIP
* "The Author" According to Bakhtin ... and Bakhtin the Author, Giovanni
Palmieri
* Carnival in Theory and Practice: Vaginov and Bakhtin, Tony Anemone
* Author and Hero in Russian Literature of the Soviet Period, Marietta
Chudakova

FORM AND IMAGE
* Bakhtin's Aesthetics as a Logic of Form, Natal'ia Bonetskaia
* The Architectonics of Aesthetic Discourse, Valerii Tiupa
* Bakhtin and Valéry: Towards a Poetic of Dialogism, Angela Biancofiore
* "We Are the Real": Bakhtin and Representation of Speech, Alastair Renfrew

A TIME AND A PLACE
* Bakhtin's Concept of "Chronotope": The Kantian Connection, Bernhard F.
Scholz
* Modernity and Chronotopicity in Bakhtin, Graham Pechey
* Is Dialogism for Real?, Ken Hirschkop
* Chatter, Babble, and Dialogue, Anthony Wall

* Index

1998 <> 221pp
Cloth ISBN: 90-5702-566-3
Paper ISBN: 90-5702-567-1

Volume 3

RECONSTRUCTING THE CANON: RUSSIAN WRITING IN THE 1980s

Edited by Arnold McMillin

This volume contains articles about and by some of the most important
Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great change in the cultural life
of Russia when the controls of Soviet communism gave way  to a wide
diversity of unfettered writing (one extreme example of which is Vladimir
Sorokin), aspects of which sometimes seem to represent disillusion with
literature itself. A variety of critical approaches matches the diversity of
émigré and metropolitan Russian writers considered here.

The book features David Bethea's theoretical discussion of the work of the
outstanding critic and scholar Iurii Lotman and a fascinating extended
interview with leading poet Ol'ga Sedakova. Several writers and works
receive their first scholarly analyses in English, such as émigré Sasha
Sokolov's complex postmodern novel, _Between Dog and World_, Elena Shvart's
poetry, and Zinovii Zinik's work. Another émigré Aleksandr Zinov'ev's prose
is subjected to searching formal analysis. The book contains an essay on the
literary environment of a talented Moscow poet Mikhail Aizenberg, an
internal émigré, and a highly controversial article that reviews Russian
writing as an extension of imperialism. Writers who for various reasons fell
into opprobrium during the 1980s include the Soviet village writes and the
late Andrei Siniavskii (Abram Tertz). A survey of urban prose in the late
1980s looks into an uncertain future, while playwright Victor Slavkin
represents the best of contemporary Russian drama.

CONTENTS

* Introduction
* Iurii Lotman in the 1980s: The Code and its Relation to Literary
Biography, David Bethea
* Conform Not to This Age: An Interview with Ol'ga Sedakova, Valentina
Polukhina
* Elena Shvarts and the Distances of Self-Disclosure, Stephanie Sandler
* An Odd Man Out: The Poetics of Mikhail Aizenberg, Zinovy Zinik
* Zinovy Zinik's Gothic Suburbia, Robert Porter
* Back to the Future: Andrei Siniavskii and _Kapitanskaia dochka_, Jane
Grayson
* System and Structure in the Work of Aleksandr Zonov'ev, Michael Kirkwood
* The Dissolution of Reality in Sasha Sokolov's _Mezhdu sobakoi i volkom_,
Hanna Kolb
* Russian Village Prose in Paraliterary Space, Kathleen Parthé
* Russian Literature and Imperialism: The Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet
Periods, Ewa Thompson
* Blues at Forty: The Plays of Victor Slavkin, Robert Russell
* Kavalerovs and Coffins: Urban Prose of the Eighties, Sally Dalton-Brown
* Vladimir Sorokin and the Norm, David Gillespie
* Index

2000 <> 336pp
Cloth ISBN: 90-5702-593-0

Volume 4

IURII DOMBROVSKII: FREEDOM UNDER TOTALITARIANISM

By Peter Doyle

"A foundation for subsequent research into the life and work of this
relatively unknown literary figure... This fine study shows that Dombrovskii
may well emerge as a major Russian writer of the 20th century."
-- CHOICE

This book is the first full-length monograph on Iurii Dombrovskii, widely
acclaimed in recent years as a writer of major importance and interest,
following the publication in Russia and the West of his last novel, _The
Faculty of Unnecessary Things_. The book is based on a thorough study of
published materials by and about Dombrovskii and on research into
unpublished archive sources, to which no previous Western scholar has had
access. Peter Doyle provides a detailed overview of the writer, and lays the
foundations for future research. He gives the most substantive account of
Dombrovskii's biography yet written, along with detailed interpretive
studies of his main prose, an assessment of his little-known poetry, and a
comprehensive bibliography.

CONTENTS

* Introduction
* The Life of Iurii Dombrovskii: I. Early Years, Alma-Ata, Siberia
* The Life of Iurii Dombrovskii: II. Moscow
* _Derzhavin_
* _The Ape is Coming for its Skull_
* The Shakespeare Novellas
* _The Keeper of Antiquities_
* _The Faculty of Unnecessary Things_
* Poetry
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index of Works
* General Index

2000 <> 227pp
Cloth ISBN: 90-5702-624-4

FORTHCOMING IN THE SERIES...

Volume 5
GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION
Edited by Peter I. Barta

Volume 6
CARNIVALIZING DIFFERENCE: BAKHTIN AND THE OTHER
Edited by Peter I. Barta, Paul Allen Miller, Chuck Platter and David
Shepherd

Volume 7
DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY IN NABAKOV'S PROSE
Edited by David H.J. Larmour

Volume 8
POLISH LITERATURE IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Edited by Patricia Pollock Brodsky

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Harwood Academic
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