Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin (Lada Panova, Sarah Pratt, eds.)

[Shvabrin, Stanislav]

New from Slavica: The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin: A Miscellany (Compiled and Introduced by Lada Panova. Edited by Lada Panova with Sarah Pratt).

http://www.slavica.com/literature/lit_kuzmin.html

This interdisciplinary volume contains the work of an international group of scholars and is the first attempt in the field of Kuzmin studies, or “kuzministics,” to present Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) in the stunning multifacetedness of the intellectual and creative endeavor that was his hallmark.  The collection treats numerous aspects of the talent and interests of this “Renaissance man” – poetry, prose, drama, music, and the particularities of his poetics; his reflection in the work of his contemporaries, including artists;  and his articulation of homosexual themes in Russian literature.  The volume also includes an English translation of one of Kuzmin’s stories formerly available only in Russian, commentary on a recording of Kuzmin reading of three of his own poems, and facsimiles of several first editions. 
  
The many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin is dedicated to the doyen of Kuzmin studies Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, Professor Emeritus at UCLA. He edited the first annotated collections of Kuzmin’s poems, prose and drama. His intellectually rich and astute interpretation of Kuzmin’s oeuvre practically founded the discipline and remains unsurpassed to this day—an inspiration to his colleagues, students  and future generations of Kuzmin scholars.

Contents:

Lada Panova. Introduction
Lada Panova. Ot sostavitelia

Poetry

Stanislav Shvabrin.  “The Burden of Memory”: Mikhail Kuzmin as Catalogue Poet
Alexander Zholkovsky. Themes, Structure and Intertexts in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Infinitive Poem “Sweet Is It To Die…”
Vladimir Plungian. "Mne s kazhdym utrom protivnei zauchennyi mertvyi stikh": k nekotorym osobennostiam tonicheskogo stikha M. Kuzmina

Drama

Nikolay Bogomolov. Eshcho ras o "Smerti Nerona" M. Kuzmina

Prose

Evgenii Bershtein. An Englishman in the Russian Bathhouse: Kuzmin’s Wings and the Russian Tradition of Homoerotic Writing
Lada Panova. A Literary Lion Hidden in Plain View: Clues to Mikhail Kuzmin’s “Aunt Sonya’s Sofa” and “A Lecture by Dostoevsky”

Music

Brad Damare. Meaning Between Media: Structural Concerns in the Alexandrian Songs

Poetics

Pavel Dmitriev. "Perekhodiashshie" siuzhety u M. Kuzmina

Kuzmin and His Contemporaries

Elena Tolstaia. Mikhail Kuzmin i Aleksei Tolstoi: Literaturnye peresecheniia
John E. Bowlt. Bitter Sweet: Mikhail Kuzmin and Konstantin Somov
Evgenii Evgodokimov. Istoriia zapisei avtorskogo chteniia M. Kuzmina

(Re)publications

Mikhail Kuzmin. Kuranty liubvi. Noty. Faksimil'nyi reprint.
Mikhail Kuzmin. Lektsiia Dostoevskogo. Faksimil'nyi reprint.
Mikhail Kuzmin. Lecture by Dostoevsky. Translated from the Russian by Michael A. Green and Stanislav Shvabrin

Index of Names
Ukazatel' proizvedenii Kuzmina

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