Description: 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 Zholkovsky's 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.
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"The energy and talent of its honoree pay forward in this magisterial work. Across his long career Prof. Zholkovsky has joined with many of the erudite and clever experts represented here to create a new generation of transnational, translingual scholars and writers. Russian history, literature and culture are about more than just Russia, and this encyclopedia ranges across linguistic and cultural landscapes to offer exactly this view. ... Recommended for scholars and students of Russia, of poetic and literary culture, of theory, memoir, autobiography and genre. Grab a copy off the library shelf and dip into it. Construct your own text, reading around in a random order, or follow the path from A to Z. The journey is worth it." --Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Journal