Sankirtos. Studies in Russian and Eastern European Literature, Society and Culture. In Honor of Tomas Venclova.

Edited by Robert Bird, Lazar Fleishman, and Fedor Poljakov.

[Volume 3]

Sankirtos. Studies in Russian and Eastern European Literature, Society and Culture. In Honor of Tomas Venclova. Edited by Robert Bird, Lazar Fleishman, and Fedor Poljakov. Frankfurt am Main [et. al.], 2008 (=Russian Culture in Europe, 3). 562 pages, 6 figures
ISBN: 978-3-631-56931-3

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About the book:
This volume is published in celebration of the seventieth birthday of Tomas Venclova, Lithuanian poet, literary scholar, essayist on contemporary culture and politics of Eastern Europe, and professor of Russian literature at Yale University.
Tomas Venclova is one of the towering figures of contemporary intellectual and cultural life. A passionate proponent of human rights and member of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, he also made a substantial contribution to the liberation of Eastern Europe.
The essays presented include studies of Russian literature, Russian and Eastern European cultural history, and the culture of the Baltic states. The authors of this volume span the entire range of Tomas Venclova's interests and contributions.
They include colleagues from many countries, among them Michel Aucouturier (Paris), Nikolay Bogomolov (Moscow), Stefano Garzonio (Pisa), Viacheslav Vs. Ivanov (Los Angeles-Moscow), Lev Loseff (Dartmouth), Adam Michnik (Warsaw), Boris Ravdin (Riga), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Alexander Schenker (Yale), Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem), Michael Wachtel (Princeton), and others.

Content:
Preface

Вячеслав Вс. Иванов (Los Angeles-Москва)
Переименовываемый город

Андрей Шишкин (Salerno-Rome)
"Слово-плоть": варианты и редакции сонета Вяч. Иванова "Язык"

Мишель Окутюрье (Paris)
Двор Пастернака: Опыт интерпретации

Frida Tcherkassova (Chicago)
In the Beginning Was the Word: Biography and Poetry in Kuzmin's "My Ancestors"

Harsha Ram (Berkeley)
"Vam" (1909): Interpreting an Early Lyric by Velimir Khlebnikov

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Andrew J. Mitchell (Stanford)
"The Hermetic Density of Objects": Joseph Brodsky and the Poetry of Things in the Western Lyrical Tradition

Федор Поляков (Vienna)
Заметки о "Путешествии в Стамбул" Иосифа Бродского

Stephanie Sandler (Cambridge, Mass.)
The Poetry of Displacement, and the Poetry of Alexandra Petrova

Svetlana Evdokimova (Providence, RI)
An Intelligent in Everyday Life: Chekhov on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Behavior

Роман Тименчик (Jerusalem)
Геософия и джаграфия

Michael Wachtel (Princeton, N.J.)
"And so - Dante is a Symbolist": The Poetics of Russian Symbolist Translation

Николай Богомолов (Москва)
Кормчие звезды над горной тропой

Robert Bird (Chicago)
Russian Symbolism and the Aesthetics of Cinema: Viacheslav Ivanov, Alexander Bakshy and Adrian Piotrovskii

Lars Kleberg (Stockholm)
About Front: the Short History of an International Avant-Garde Journal (1930-1931)

Стефано Гардзонио (Pisa)
Мальчик, который любил Андерсена. Жизнь и творчество Анатолия Фиолетова

Яков Клоц (New Haven, Conn.)
"Для поэта нет родного языка": о "всеязычии" в поэзии Цветаевой и Бродского

Catherine Ciepiela (Amherst, Mass.)
Down to Earth: Pasternak's 1929 Poems to Tsvetaeva

Федор Сологуб
Неизданные сказки и "сказочки"
Публикация Маргариты Павловой (С.-Петербург)

Владимир Хазан (Jerusalem)
"Он спасал все культурное, человечно ценное" (Максим Горький и Пинхас Рутен- берг)

Gabriella Safran, Irina Denischenko (Stanford)
"One of the most magnificent moments in human history": S. An-sky's Return to Russia in December 1905

Aivars Stranga (Riga)
Latvians and Jews: the Revolution of 1905

Письма И.Н. Заволоко к Н.А. Цурикову.
Публикация Владимира Цурикова (Jordanville, N.Y.)

Лазарь Флейшман (Stanford)
Под Дамокловым мечом. Об одной незамеченной книге

Е.Е. Климов
Заметки. Публикация Алексея Климова (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Предисловие и примечания Бориса Равдина (Riga)

Leonidas Donskis (Kaunas)
A Voice against Modern Demonology: Mapping Tomas Venclova's Criticism of Lithuanian Antisemitism

Donata Mitaitė (Vilnius)
Вильнюс в культурном сознании Томаса Венцловы

Ольга Ревзина (Москва)
Личность в науке: случай Томаса Венцловы

Thirteen Trifles by Jan Kochanowski
Translated and Annotated by Alexander Schenker (New Haven, Conn.)

Adam Michnik (Warsaw)
The Editor: Jerzy Giedroyc (1906-2000)

Лев Лосев (Hanover, N.H.)
Облака истории