The Pushkin Handbook

The Pushkin Handbook , a collection of studies by leading Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America, and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue. From its beginnings, Pushkin's oeuvre has accommodated numerous, often competing readings. This book is further testimony to the continuing complexity of Russia's preeminent writer: his place in the literary and cultural cosmos, his relationship to his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, and his reception and interpretation at various points in history. Contents......Page 6 A Note on Transliteration - David M. Bethea......Page 10 Preface - David M. Bethea......Page 12 Introduction: Of Pushkin and Pushkinists - David M. Bethea......Page 18 1. Pushkin’s Biography - David M. Bethea and Sergei Davydov......Page 46 2. Пушкинская Текстология: Академическое ИзданиеПолного Собрания Сочинениn Пушкина - Сергеn Фомичев......Page 68 3. Предмет наших изучениn и восторгов (рукописи Пушкина) - Татьяна Краснобородько......Page 88 4. Пушкин и проблемы поэтическоn формы: язык и стих - М. Л. Гаспаров......Page 103 5. Лирика Пушкина - О. С. Муравьева......Page 123 6. Поэмы Пушкина - Е. Ларионова......Page 136 7. «Евгениn Онегин»: Интерпретация‚ поэтика‚ традиция - Ю. Н. Чумаков......Page 169 8. Questions of Genre and Poetics in Evgenii Onegin - J. Douglas Clayton......Page 198 9. Evgenii Onegin as Pushkin’s Central Novel of Development - Leslie O’Bell......Page 215 10. Драматургия Пушкина - М. Виролаnнен......Page 233 11. “Нисхождение” Пушкина к прозе - Вольф Шмид......Page 253 12. Pushkin’s Fictional and Nonfictional Prose: Tracing Trends in Scholarship - Paul Debreczeny......Page 284 13. Pushkin as Historical Thinker - David M. Bethea......Page 309 14. The Evolution of Pushkin’s Political Thought - Sergei Davydov......Page 326 15. Pushkin as Critic - Caryl Emerson......Page 364 16. Pushkin and Problems of Translation - Lauren G. Leighton......Page 377 17. Из истории понимания Пушкина - С. Г. Бочаров......Page 395 18. Pushkin and Society: Post-1966 Perspectives - William Mills Todd III......Page 407 19. Pushkin and the Caucasus - Harsha Ram......Page 422 20. The Pushkin Myth in Russia - Stephanie Sandler......Page 446 21. Pushkin and English Literature - Alexander Dolinin......Page 467 22. Пушкин и французская литератураЛ. И. Вольперт......Page 501 23. Предшественники Пушкина в ХVIII и ХIХ вв.(Державин‚ Жуковскиn‚ Батюшков) - Олег Проскурин......Page 518 24. Пушкин и литературное движение его времени - В. Э. Вацуро......Page 537 25. Pushkin and Romanticism - Boris Gasparov......Page 580 26. Пушкин и реализм: Некоторые итоги и перспективы изучения проблемы - В. М. Маркович......Page 611 27. Pushkin and Music - Boris Katz and Caryl Emerson......Page 634 28. Pushkiniana as an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Criticism - Svetlana Evdokimova and Vladimir Golstein......Page 652 Contributors......Page 682 Index......Page 690 "Contributors to the volume consider Pushkin in terms of his biography; his innovations in the forms of lyric, narrative poem, novel in verse, drama, and fictional prose; his thoughts on history, politics, and literature; the textual challenges of his work; and the problems of translating it. Another major focus is Pushkin's place in the literary and cultural cosmos: his relationship to his Russian predecessors and contemporaries, his responses to other European literature, his role within the traditions of Romanticism and Realism, and his reception and interpretation by readers at various points in history." "From its beginnings Pushkin's oeuvre has accommodated numerous, often competing readings (of which the major trends are discussed in David Bethea's introduction). The Pushkin Handbook - containing arguments whose wellsprings lie in a range of intellectual traditions, including structuralism, prosody, Bakhtin, Orientalist studies, musicology, and more - if further testimony to the continuing complexity of Russia's preeminent writer."--Jacket Features contributions from the world's leading Pushkin scholars, examining Pushkin's life, work, and thought, and his place in Russian and world literature and culture. The contributors to this volume consider Pushkin in terms of his biography; his thoughts on history, politics, and literature; the textual challenges of his work; and more. "The Pushkin Handbook, a collection of new studies by leading Pushkin scholars from the former Soviet Union, North America, and elsewhere, unites in one volume a multiplicity of voices engaged in a genuinely post-Soviet dialogue."