Eleazar M. Meletinskii

[Seth Graham]

Dear colleagues,

Sad news from Russia: Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii (1918-2005) died on Dec. 17 in Moscow.  Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at RGGU for the past several years, Professor Meletinskii was simply a giant in Russian academia for his seminal studies of folklore, literature, and the history and theory of narrative.  

Here is a brief obituary, in Russian:

http://www.regions.ru/ru/main/messagepage/1939063/

Sincerly,

Seth Graham
_____________________
Seth Graham
Humanities Fellow
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Building 40 (Main Quad)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2006
(650) 725-5935
sbgraham at stanford.edu

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