{"id":154,"date":"2023-06-22T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/alexander-zholkovsky\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:07:50","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <ol>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib22\/\">The poetic structure of a maxim by La Rochefoucauld: An essay in &#8220;Theme &#8211; Text&#8221; poetics<\/a>\u00a0[co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Poetics and Theory of Literature 3 (1978), 549-592.<\/li>\n<li>The Somali Story\u00a0 &#8220;A Soothsayer Tested&#8221; in:\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes-and-texts\">Themes and Texts<\/a>, pp. 85-98;\u00a0<em><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib6\">short Engl. version<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in: A Soothsayer Tested. \u00a0Somali Folktales, ed. and transl. by G.L. Kapchits, Moscow: The Way, 2006, pp. 205-217.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib41\">October 19, 1982, or: The semiotics of a Soviet cookie wrapper<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Wiener Slawistischer Alamanach<\/em>\u00a011 (1983; special Mel&#8217;chuk issue), 341-354..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib43\">The &#8216;sinister&#8217; in the poetic world of Pasternak<\/a>.\u00a0<em>International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics<\/em>\u00a029 (1984), 109-131.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Zh-Pushk-ILY.pdf\">The Literary Text. Thematic and Expressive Structure: An Analysis of Pushkin&#8217;s Poem &#8220;Ya vas lyubil&#8230;&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>New Literary History<\/em>, 9 (1977-78), 264-278, and in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/themes-and-texts\">Themes and Texts. Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness.<\/a>\u00a0Cornell UP, 1984.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib44\">Seven &#8220;winds&#8221;: translations of Pasternak&#8217;s &#8220;Veter.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Language and Literary Theory<\/em>, B. Stolz et al. eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984, 623-643.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib47\">Iz zapisok po poezii grammatiki [From notes on the poetry of grammar]: On Pasternak&#8217;s figurative voices<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Russian Linguistics<\/em>\u00a0(special Zalizniak issue; W. Lehfeldt guest ed.), 9 (1985), 375-386.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/palissandria\">The stylistic roots of\u00a0<em>Palisandria<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<em>Canadian-American Slavic Studies<\/em>\u00a0(special Sasha Sokolov issue; D. Barton Johnson guest ed.) 21, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1987 [actually publ. 1990], 369-400).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Six-Easy-Pieces.pdf\">Six easy pieces on grammar of poetry, grammar of love<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Literary Tradition and Practice in Russian Culture. Papers from an International Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yury Mikhailovich Lotman<\/em>. Russian Culture: Structure and Tradition. 2-6 July 1992, Keele University, UK, ed. by V. Polukhina, J. Andrew, and R. Reid, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993: 192-213.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/between\">&#8220;Between Genres,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in a collection of essays on Ginzburg, ed. by Jane Harris as a special issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies 28 (1994) 2-3: 157-160.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/gog\">Rereading Gogol&#8217;s miswritten book: notes on\u00a0<em>Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 17-34.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap2\">Through Revolution\u2019s looking-glass: Tolstoy into Zoshchenko<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 35-57.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/after\">Before and After &#8220;After the Ball&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 59-87.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap4\">A study in framing: Pushkin, Bunin, Nabokov, and theories of story and discourse<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 88-116.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap5\">De- and re-constructing a classic: \u201cI loved you\u201d by Joseph Brodsky<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 117-146.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap6\">The beauty mark and the &#8216;I&#8217;s of the beholder<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 147-163.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/limon\">Limonov at literary Olympics (On his short story &#8220;The Belle Who Had Inspired the Poet&#8221;<\/a>). in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 163-180:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap7\">A duet in three movements: Bulgakov \u2014 Olesha \u2013 Bulgakov<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 181-212.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/eng-bookch-past\">The dynamics of adaptation: Pasternk\u2019s second birth<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 213-240.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/chap9\">A dystopian \u201cNewdream\u201d Fivefold : Analyzing Ilf and Petrov\u2019s Closet Monarchist<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text<\/a>. Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 241-269.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib66a\">The codes and contexts of Platonov&#8217;s &#8220;Fro&#8221;\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/tct-index\">Text Counter Text&gt;<\/a>\u00a0Stanford UP, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper): 70-296.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/mop\">How a Russian Maupassant was made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel and the Tolstoy legacy.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 Slavic Review, 53, 3 (1994): 671-693; Russ. version in Babel&#8217;\/Babel [ Isaak Babel; co-author M. B. Yampolsky]. Moscow: Carte blanche, 1994: 30-56.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/eis\">Eisenstein&#8217;s poetics: dialogical or totalitarian?<\/a>\u00a0in: Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, ed. by John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich, Stanford UP, 1996: 245-256.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/zocsh117\">&#8220;What is the author trying to say with his artistic work?&#8221;: rereading Zoshchenko&#8217;s oeuvre.<\/a>\u00a0Slavic and East European Journal, 40 (1996), 3: 458-474.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/reed3\/\">Anna Akhmatova: scripts, not scriptures [Review Article]<\/a>. Slavic and East European Journal 40 (1996), 1: 135-141.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/push134\">Pushkin Under Our Skin<\/a>. Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia&#8217;s Best-loved Writer. Ed. A. D. P. Briggs. London: Hazar Publishing, 1999. P. 189-196.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/obv99\">The obverse of\u00a0 Stalinism: Akhmatova&#8217;s self-serving charisma of Selflessness<\/a>. In Self and Story in Russian History, ed. by Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000: 46-68.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/zooper142\">Mikhail Zoshchenko&#8217;s Shadow Operas.<\/a>\u00a0In Russian Literature and the Other Arts. Ed. Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge University Press , 2000: 119-146.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/ivan\">The Power of Grammar and Grammar of Power in the Childhood Scenes of Eisenstein&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Ivan the Terrible<\/em><\/a>. In Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration. Eds. Al LaValley and Barry P. Scherr. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers UP. P. 253-267.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/nabpuzzl\">Poem, Problem, Prank<\/a>. The Nabokovian 47 (Fall 2001, forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/yale\">Poetry of Grammar or Pragmatics of Poetry? (Confessions of a Compulsive Conservative)<\/a>. Paper at the Symposium\u00a0<em>Between History and System: Slavic Theory Today<\/em>, at Yale University, March 1-2, 2002.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/babnab1\">Towards a typology of \u201cdebut\u201d narratives: Babel, Nabokov and Others<\/a>: Paper at the conference on The Enigma of Isaac Babel. Stanford University, 29 February-2 March 2004.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoersatzteile.de\/blog\/mod-en-typologi-af-debut-fortaellinger-babel-nabokov-m-fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Version in Danish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/rethi-sh\">Rethinking the canon: Non-conformist Soviet classics in post-Soviet perspectivein<\/a>. In the\u00a0<em>Materials of the Second Nevada Conference on Russian Culture<\/em>. Ed. Dmitry Shalin (forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/film\">You Don\u2019t Know What You\u2019re Missing.<\/a>\u00a0Hermitage Magazine 2006, No. 2: 32-33.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/gasp-bunin\">In Memoram M. L. Gasparov: A Poetic Offering (Ivan Bunin\u2019s &#8220;Without Me&#8221;; 1916 )<\/a>. Paper at the USC Department of Slavic Languages &amp; Literatures Symposium on Recent Books on Russian Poetry dedicated to the memory of M.L. Gasparov, Friday, April 7, 2006,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/tsq\/16\/gasparov16.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and in Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 16<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib240\">Infinitive Poetry, Relevance Of Linguistics And Issues In Poetic Analysis<\/a>. Paper at the AATSEEL 2010\/2011 Convention (Pasadena, CA), Panel on &#8220;Work in Progress&#8221; ( Jan. 07, 2011).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib241\">Iskander&#8217;s Pantomime Narratives<\/a>. Paper at the AATSEEL 2010\/2011 Convention (Pasadena, CA), Panel on &#8220;Literary Theatrics: Gestures, Staginess, and Speech&#8221; (Jan. 8, 2011).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/tsq\/35\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal version<\/a>\u00a0in: Toronto Slavic Quarterly 35: 272-242.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib242\">More Keys To The Lamarck Puzzle And Related Theoretical Issues<\/a>. Paper at the ASEEES 2010 Convention (Los Angeles, CA), Panel on &#8220;Mandelstam Revisited&#8221; (Nov. 20, 2010).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/ginzb1\">The Red and the Gray<\/a>. In: : Emily Van Buskirk and Andrei Zorin, eds., Lydia Ginzburg&#8217;s Alternative Literary Identities. A Collection of Articles and New Translations (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012): 27-37.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stengazeta.net\/article.html?article=6923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russain version<\/a>\u00a0in Book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.vremya.ru\/index.php?newsid=1263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24<\/a>: 104-114.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/madison-site\">Poetics Today: Some Burning Issues<\/a>. Keynote Lecture \/\/ AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference, 12-13 October 2012. University of Madison-Wisconsin . Pyle Center, Room 335, Friday 12 October 2012, 4:00 pm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/kuzm-stat-eng-site\">Themes, Structure, and Intertexts in Mikhail Kuzmin\u2019s Infinitive Poem \u201cSweet Is It To Die\u2026\u201d<\/a>. In: The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin. A Miscellany. Ed. by Lada Panova with Sarah Pratt. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2011. P. 27-42.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/premiia\">Acceptance speech<\/a>\u00a0at the awarding ceremony of the literary prize &#8220;Bella&#8221; (<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bella\">Russian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bella_traduzione\">Italian<\/a>\u00a0versions; Italian translation by Giulia Zangoli).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/listomania\">Listomania, or Catalog as Technique.<\/a>\u00a0With examples from poetry and prose, classical and modern, Western and Russian. An invited lecture at UC Berkeley, Monday March 31, 2014; also in:\u00a0<em>Russian Journal of Linguistics<\/em>, 2018, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Studies in Cultural Semantics And Pragmatics: For Anna Wierzbicka\u2019s Anniversary).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.rudn.ru\/linguistics\/article\/view\/20180\/16440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pp. 945\u2014965<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/time-money-authorship-dostoevsky\">Time, Money, and Authorship in Dostoevsky\u2019s &#8220;A Gentle Spirit.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Paper at the Symposium on Russian and Comparative Literature in Memory of Professor Emeritus James L. Rice (Eugene, Oregon, Friday, May 16, 2014).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/PZ-Scherr.docx\">Seeing Tolstoy\u2019s ghost in Khodasevich\u2019s mirror<\/a>\u00a0\/\/ Poetry &amp; Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky \/ Ed. by Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey and Vida T. Johnson. Bloomington, IN: Slavica. P. 203-213.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/magazines.russ.ru\/voplit\/2011\/6\/zh15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Russain version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/City_and_the_lock.pdf\">The City and the Lock: Pushkin\u2019s Miniature Lyric<\/a>\/\/ &#8216;A Convenient Territory:&#8217; Russian Literature at the Edge of Modernity. Essays in Honor of Barry Scherr&#8221; \/ Ed. by Michael Gronas and John Kopper. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 2015 P. 67-79.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Collaboration.pdf\">Collaboration and Its Discontents: Pasternak and Mandel\u2019stam in the Nineteen Thirties\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ Russian Literature 78 (2015), pp. 683-703.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Chelsea.pdf\">A Little House on Chelsea; or, A Theme And Variations<\/a>\u00a0\/\/Urban Semiotics: The City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomenon \/ Ed. Igor Pilshchikov. Tallinn: TLU Press, 2015. P. 319-334.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Ovation.pdf\">\u201cWho organized the standing ovation?\u201d: Stalin, Akhmatova, and Shakespeare.<\/a>An Eberhard L. Faber Lecture (Monday, April 25, 4:30 pm, 245 East Pyne, Princeton University).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/micro-anal-SEEJ.pdf\">Quote the Poets Ever More: Micro-Analyzing Intertextual Gems by Anna Akhmatova, Vladislav Khodasevich and Osip Mandel&#8217;shtam<\/a>\u00a0\/\/ Slavic &amp; East European Journal, 61, 1 (Spring 2017): 11-128.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/216-924-1-PB.pdf\">Between Groys and Gasparov\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ Dialogic Pedagogy Online Journal,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dpj.pitt.edu\/ojs\/index.php\/dpj1\/issue\/view\/9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vol.5\u00a0<\/a>(2017): 16-22.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/LinguisticsAndPoetics.pdf\">Linguistics and poetics &#8212; and some other smoldering issues of literary analysis: An auto-heuristic study<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Slavic and East Europen Journal,\u00a0<\/i>64 (2020), 2: 155-177. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A66Ke2cnO9c&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis: An (auto)heuristic study.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; Keynote address, AATSEEL, Feb 8, 2020, San Diego, Ca.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/12\/7\/506\/htm__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!_Igl1k64o5VDcGiG4x9d2Ek_bwNSiAGNPFjSC3M2WhxI11E4ZPVXyCn8Otu6$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To Be or Not to Be God: The Issue of Authorial Power in Dostoevsky<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Religions<\/i>\u00a0(ISSN 2077-1444), Vol. 12, 7 (2021; forthcoming in a paper edition); a revised English version of # 151.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/The_Poetry_of_Grammar_PR.pdf\">The Poetry of Grammar and Ungrammaticality<\/a>. Alexander Zholkovsky\u00a0Interviewed by the editors of\u00a0<em>Pushkin Review<\/em>.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/47008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<i>Pushkin Review<\/i>,<\/a>\u00a0vol. 22-23, 2020-2021, p. 135-167. &#8220;<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/Selected_Bibliography_PR.pdf\">Selected Bibliography of Alexander Zholkovsky&#8217;s Works on Pushkin<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/47008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Pushkin Review<\/i><\/a>, vol. 22-23, 2020-2021, p. 169-178.<\/li>\n<li>Digital High: The Art of Visual Seduction?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-0752\/11\/5\/97?utm_campaign=releaseissue_artsutm_medium=emailutm_source=releaseissueutm_term=doilink16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<em>Arts<\/em>\u00a02022,\u00a0<em>11<\/em>(5), 97<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/09\/digital-high.pdf\">PDF-version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-0752\/14\/1\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recollections and Reflections About My Dad, Leo Mazel (1907\u20132000)<\/a>. <em>Arts<\/em> 2025, <em>14<\/em>(1), 2 (Music vis-\u00e0-vis Other Arts in Eastern and Central Europe: Performance, Literature, Theatre, Art\/Architecture and Visuality<strong>, <\/strong>Academic editor Dennis Ioffe). <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/01\/Recollections-and-Reflections-about-Leo-Mazel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF-version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-0752\/13\/3\/81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Testing Textual and Territorial Boundaries in Bulat Okudzhava\u2019s Song \u201cAnd We to the Doorman: \u2018Open the Doors!\u2019\u201d<\/a> <i>Arts<\/i> <span lang=\"RU\">2024<\/span><span lang=\"RU\">, <i>13<\/i>(3), 81 (Music vis-\u00e0-vis Other Arts in Eastern and Central Europe: Performance, Literature, Theatre, Art\/Architecture and Visuality<strong>,<\/strong> Academic editor Dennis Ioffe). <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2025\/01\/testing-textual-and-territorial-boundaries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF-version<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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