New title announcement: The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story

Tue Dec 22 20:22:25 UTC 2009

Dear Colleagues,

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion edited by Lyudmila Parts is now available. 

ISBN 978-1-934843-44-4 (cloth) $49.00 / £40.99
ISBN 978-1-934843-69-7 (paper) $24.95 / £17.50
400 pp., December 2009

Series: Cultural Revolutions:  Russia in 20th Century

Topic Areas: Russian Literature and Literary Criticism

Bibliographic Information: 1. Short stories, Russian -- History and criticism. 2. Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and Criticism. I. Parts, Lyudmilla. II Title.

Level: Undergraduate and Graduate

Summary: The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author’s oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language’s power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the Short Story, and Genre Theory.   

Author: Lyudmila Parts (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002) is Associate Professor at the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at McGill University. Her book The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (2008) explores the intersection of intertextuality, cultural memory, and cultural myth. She has published articles on Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstaya, Petrushevskaya, P'etsukh, and Pelevin.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition.
LYUDMILA PARTS ...						v

Chekhov’s “The Darling”: Femininity Scorned and Desired.
SVETLANA EVDOKIMOVA					1

Bunin’s “Gentle Breath.”
LEV VYGOTSKY						13

Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel (“Pan Apolek,”“My First Goose”).
ROB ERT MAGUIRE 						31

Zoshchenko’s “Electrician,” or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism.
ALEKSANDER ZHOLKOVSKY					47

Yury Olesha’s Three Ages of Man: A Close Reading of “Liompa.”
ANDREW BARRATT						71

Nabokov’s Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in “Spring in Fialta”
(1936-1947).
JOHN BURT FOSTER, JR					105

Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of “The
 Childhood of Lovers” by Boris Pasternak.
FIONA BJORLING 						117

Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire
 (“The River Potudan”).
ERIC NAIMAN						143

“This Could Have Been Foreseen”: Kharms’s “The Old Woman” 
(Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis.
ROBIN MILNER-GULLAND					161

Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s “Condensed Milk.”
LEONA TOKER		                                     185

The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz’s “Pkhents.”
CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY 			         201

Vasilii Shukshin’s “Cut Down to Size” (Srezal) and the Question 
of Transition.
DIANE IGNASHEVNEMEC					216

The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story 
Table of Contents (cont’d):

Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: 
Tatiana Tolstaia’s “The Poet and the Muse.”
ERICA GREBER							239

Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy
 (“The Lady With the Dogs”).
LYUDMILA PARTS 						261

“The Lady with the Dogs,” by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia.
Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger				279

Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History:
 Viacheslav Pietsukh’s “The Central-Ermolaevo War” and Viktor 
Erofeev’s “Parakeet.”
MARK LIPOVETSKY						283

Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov’s “Pushkin’s Photograph.”
SVEN SPIEKER							307

The “Traditional Postmodernism” of Viktor Pelevin’s Short Story
 “Nika.”
OLGA BOGDANOVA						327

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