Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 1998. — 244 p. A Note on Transliteration. Realizing Metaphors, Situating Pushkin . Why Pushkin? The Problem of Poetic Biography. Freud: The Curse of the Literally Figurative. Bloom: The Critic as Romantic Poet. Jakobson: Why the Statue Won’t Come to Life, or Will It? Lotman: The Code and Its Relation to Literary Biography. Pushkin,...
With Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood. — Wisconsin: Wisconsin Press, 2006. — 572 p. The purpose of this book is to rescue the original version of Alexander Pushkin’s historical drama Boris Godunov from obscurity. Long ignored by specialists and virtually unknown to general readers, Pushkin’s Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev was composed...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. — 482 p. — ISBN: 978-0-299-28703-0. Foreword: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo - Caryl Emerson. Note on Transliteration and Translation. Introduction: Beyond Pushkin as Dogma - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie. Taboos in Context . Pushkin the Titular Councilor - Irina Reyfman. Why Pushkin Did Not Become a Decembrist - Igor...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 411 p. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 204 p. — (Russian Library). — ISBN10: 0231180810. — ISBN13: 978-0231180818. Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged émigrés and Soviet scholars alike, yet his "disrespect" was meant only to...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. — 404 p. — ISBN: 978-0-299-28543-2. The purpose of this book is less to fill a lacuna than to bridge a gaping chasm in the existing scholarly literature. Given the centrality of Pushkin’s work to the Russian literary tradition and the virtually hagiographical reverence that attends any object or location associated with him, one can...
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