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Text Counter Text. Rereadings in Russian Literary History.<\/strong>
\nStanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.<\/p>\n

Alexander\u00a0 ZHOLKOVSKY<\/p>\n

CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction: On Close Rereading<\/a><\/p>\n

PART I: OEUVRES AND INTERTEXTS<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0Rereading Gogol’s Miswritten\u00a0Passages<\/em><\/a>
\nSkaz<\/em>, Gogol, and his characters. Gogol’s identity, writing, and reception.\u00a0Selected Passages<\/em>\u00a0and the importance of writing badly. Grandeur, information, and media manipulation. Writing about writing.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Through Revolution’s Looking-Glass: Tolstoy into Zoshchenko<\/a>
\nTheater and truth. Property vs theft. “Good” ideas–“bad” writing. Cultural roles.<\/p>\n

PART II: STRUCTURES AND VARIATIONS<\/strong>
\n3. Before and After “After the Ball:” Variations on the Theme of Courtship, Corpses, and Culture<\/a>
\nLeo Tolstoy–1903. Commentary: from a reading to variations. Mikhail Zoshchenko–1929. Eugenia Ginzburg–1977. Commentary: back to stereotypes. “After the Ball” as folktale.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0A Study in Framing: Pushkin, Bunin, Nabokov, and Theories of Story and Discourse<\/a>
\nFraming and rereading around 1917. “The Stationmaster”: bracketing reality. “Gentle Breathing”: destabilizing the narrative worldview. “Gentle Breathing”: shift of focus. Commentary and a further comparison: “Spring in Fialta” .<\/p>\n

PART III: LINEAGE AND CONVERSION<\/strong>
\n5.\u00a0De- and Reconstructing a Classic: “I Loved You Once…” by Joseph Brodsky<\/a>
\n“I Loved You…”: a map of rewritings. The cluster: thematic and formal characteristics. The Sixth sonnet as parody: Brodsky rereading Pushkin. The Sixth sonnet as a Brodsky anthology. Pushkin a la Brodsky.\u00a0 Appendix.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Intertextual\u00a0Malgre Lui<\/em>: The Case of Limonov<\/a>
\nThe beauty mark and the ‘I’s of the beholder. Limonov at the literary Olympics.\u00a0 Appendix.<\/p>\n

PART IV: TEXTS IN DIALOGUE<\/strong>
\n7.\u00a0A Duet in Three Movements: Bulgakov – Olesha – Bulgakov<\/a>
\nHeart of a Dog<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Envy<\/em>.\u00a0The Master and Margarita<\/em>.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0The Dynamics of Adaptation: Pasternak’s Second Birth<\/a>
\nPasternak and the early thirties. “I Want to Go Home”: themes and strategies. The four reasons.<\/p>\n

PART V: MULTIPLE READINGS<\/strong>
\n9.\u00a0A Dystopian “Newdream” Fivefold: Analyzing Ilf’s and Petrov’s Closet Monarchist<\/a>
\nIlf and Petrov and pluralist reading. The Bender act. The Dream genre. The adaptaion game.The dystopian masterplot. The “Newdream”.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0The Codes and Contexts of Platonov’s “Fro.”<\/a>
\nStructure. Intertexts: \u0421lassical. Intertexts: \u0421ontemporary.<\/p>\n

Afterword<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes
\nWorks Cited<\/a>
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