A/Z Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky [Paperback]

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovskys oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches. Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the Great, literary theory, and Russian film. The articles are rooted in computational analysis, literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural history, and a host of other methodological and discursive modes. This collection provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the most fascinating figures of Russian letters but also a remarkable picture of the shape of Russian literary scholarship today.This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovskys oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches.

How diverse and inspiring can a researchersinterests be? In the case of Alexander Zholkovsky, who celebrates his eightiethanniversary with thirty-five books and about four hundred articles, notincluding translations and reprints, interviews and other newspaper materials,the scope must be very wide. &Essays in Honorof Alexander Zholkovskydemonstratesthat the celebrants creativity and academic fertility clearly give life to alarge number of research ideas in a wide variety of research domains. Natalia Batova, University ofMelbourne,Australian Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies, Vol. 32

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