{"id":160,"date":"2023-06-22T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/alexander-zholkovsky\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:09:42","slug":"newa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/newa\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New"},"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  <p><strong>03.11.2026<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2026\/03\/at-the-intersection-of-linguistics-paremiology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At the intersection of linguistics, paremiology and poetics: on the artistic structure of proverbs<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Poetics<\/em>, 7 (1978), 309-332; <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2026\/03\/K-opisaniiu-vyrazitelnoi-struktury-paremii.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian version<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Paremiologicheskii sbornik<\/em>, G. L. Permjakov ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1978, 136-162.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.04.2025<\/strong> <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>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.04.2025 <\/strong><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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>03.27.2023<\/strong>\u00a0Natalia\u00a0Batova (University of Melbourne).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/review-Batova-AZ.pdf\">Review of<\/a> Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov (eds), <i>A\/Z: Essays in<\/i><i>\u00a0Honor\u00a0of\u00a0Alexander\u00a0Zholkovsky<\/i>.\u00a0Boston,\u00a0MA:\u00a0Academic\u00a0Studies\u00a0Press,\u00a02018. ISBN978-1-61811-778-6. ix + 660\u00a0pages.\u00a0<i>Australian Slavonic and East European Studies<\/i>, 32, Nos. 1-2, 2018. P. 126-128.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.01.2022\u00a0<\/strong>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=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/digital-high.pdf\">PDF-version<\/a>. A revised and expanded English-language version of Bibliography, 287.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.01.2022\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulatory speech at the Book Launch of\u00a0<i>LIFETIME LINGUISTIC INSPIRATIONS:<\/i>\u00a0<i>To Igor Mel&#8217;\u010duk from Colleagues and Friends for his 90th Birthday<\/i>\u00a0(<i>Wiener Slawistischer Almanach<\/i>, Sonderband 101; Peter Lang, 2022) at the D\u00e9partement de linguistique et de traduction, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al 9:00 AM &#8211; 12 noon (and via Zoom).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umontreal.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/_bJgkuunAQFIyLWFxuXCu1mHD_THAlIrHxJOv3whtJPdaBdKlGjAejubC-THEMnK.bpFUj7qZoj479pZy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recording<\/a>\u00a0(2 hrs. 04 min. &#8211; 2 hrs. 12 min.) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/CongratulatorySpeechIgor-90.docx\">text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.02.2022<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0pirate 1979\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DTIC_ADA091302\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English translation by Emery W. Tetrault<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/djvu.online\/file\/eiqyEuJCclLsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sintaksis somali. Glubinnye i poverkhnostnye struktury<\/a><\/em>\u00a0[Somali syntax. Deep and surface structures] has been discovered. More on this, see\u00a0Georgi Kapchits.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.macalester.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1231&amp;context=bildhaan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Somali Syntax in USSR, RF and USA<\/a>. Bildhaan, 2020, vol. 20. P. 132-140.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Somali_Syntax_Translation.pdf\">PDF-version<\/a>\u00a0of the translation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02.21.2022<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.<\/strong><strong>26.<\/strong><strong>2021<\/strong>\u00a0<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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.02.2021<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">From Memoir Vignettes<\/span>.\u00a0<em>Zvezda<\/em>\u00a0[The Star], 2000,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qfly7aoohthisdcjp4hyeaf6ha-jj2cvlaia66be-magazines-gorky-media.translate.goog\/zvezda\/2000\/3\/iz-memuarnyh-vinetok.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vol. 3<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qfly7aoohthisdcjp4hyeaf6ha-jj2cvlaia66be-magazines-gorky-media.translate.goog\/zvezda\/2000\/4\/iz-memuarnyh-vinetok-okonchanie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vol. 4<\/a>. An unauthorized translation (website: Gor&#8217;kii).<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.02.2021<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.17.2020\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>05.21.2020\u00a0<\/strong>Angela Brintlinger.<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Fest-retz.pdf\">\u00a0Review of:\u00a0<\/a>Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio and Igor Pilshchikov. A\/Z:\u00a0<em>Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky, Academic Studies Press<\/em>, 2018.\u00a0<em>SEEJ,<\/em>\u00a02019, 63(4): 620-621.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03.01.20\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A66Ke2cnO9c&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Linguistics and Poetics and Some Other Smoldering Issues of Literary Analysis: An (auto)heuristic study&#8221;.<\/a>\u00a0Prof. Alexander Zholkovsky&#8217;s keynote address, AATSEEL, Feb 8, 2020, San Diego, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08.02.19\u00a0<\/strong>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aatseel.org\/about\/awards_2005167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATSEEL&#8217;s Award\u00a0<\/a>for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23.12.18\u00a0<\/strong>L<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.rudn.ru\/linguistics\/article\/view\/20180\/16440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">istomania, or Catalog as Technique (with examples from poetry and prose, classical and modern, Western and Russian)<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Russian Journal of Linguistics<\/em>, 2018, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Studies in Cultural Semantics And Pragmatics: For Anna Wierzbicka\u2019s Anniversary). Pp. 945\u2014965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27.04.18<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Essays_in_Honor.pdf\">A\/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky<\/a>\/Ed. by Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.03.18<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/130147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Review of: On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature by Lev Loseff\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ The Russian Review, vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), p. 349-351.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.01.17<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aseees.org\/news-events\/aseees-blog-feed\/cautionary-tale-digital-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barry P. Scherr. A Cautionary Tale for the Digital Age<\/a>\/\/ASEES Blog, August 3, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.01.17<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07.30.17<\/strong>\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>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07.22.17<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/micro-anal-SEEJ.pdf\">Quote the Poets Ever More: Micro-Analyzing Intertextual Gems by Anna Akhmatova, Vladislav Khodasevich and Osip Mandel&#8217;shtam\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ Slavic &amp; East European Journal, 61, 1 (Spring 2017): 11-128.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.05.17<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Akhm-To-Cross.pdf\">To Cross or Not to Cross: Akhmatova&#8217;s &#8220;Sacred Boundary&#8221;<\/a>, in:\u00a0<i>Approaches to Poetry: Some Aspects of Textuality, Intertextuality and Intermediality<\/i>, ed. by Janos Petofi and Terry Olivi, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994: 248-264.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.05.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/exungue-index\">(co-author Yuri Shcheglov) Ex ungue leonem: Detskie rasskazy L\u2019va Tolstogo i poetika vyrazitel\u2019nosti [Ex ungue leonem: Leo Tolstoy\u2019s children\u2019s stories and the poetics of expressiveness]<\/a>\u00a0\/ Compiled by A. Zholkovsky; ed. by A. Bodrova. Moscow: NLO Publishers, 2016. 288 p.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/ExUngueContent.pdf\">Content page in Russian (in PDF)<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/ExUngueOtSost.pdf\">Compiler&#8217;s Preface in Russian (in PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.05.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/vybmesta-index\">Vybrannye mesta, ili siuzhety raznykh let<\/a>\u00a0[Selected passages, or Narratives of Many Years]. Moscow: CoLibri, 2016. 576 p.<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Vybrannye-contents.pdf\">Content page in Russian (in PDF);\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/ot-avt.pdf\">Author&#8217;s Preface in Russian (in PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>05.01.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Ovation.pdf\">\u201cWho organized the standing ovation?\u201d: Stalin, Akhmatova, and Shakespeare.<\/a>\u00a0An Eberhard L. Faber Lecture (Monday, April 25, 4:30 pm, 245 East Pyne, Princeton University). See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Ovation_poster.pdf\">poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03.04.16<\/strong>\u00a0Barry P. Scherr (Dartmouth College).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Scherr-rev.pdf\">To Write of Many Things: Three Recent Volumes by Alexander Zholkovsky.<\/a>\u00a0Review article in\u00a0<em>Slavic and East European Journal<\/em>, v. 59, 4 (2015). P. 609-617.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.12.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.05.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zvezdaspb.ru\/index.php?page=8&amp;nput=2633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zagadki martovskoi nochi. Esche raz o stikhotvorenii Pasternaka &#8220;Vstrecha&#8221;<\/a>[Enigmas of a March night: More on Boris Pasternal\u2019s poem \u201cAn Encounter\u201d] \/\/ Zvezda [The Star], 2015, 12: 219-227.Also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/magazines.russ.ru\/zvezda\/12\/zagadki-martovskoj-nochi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the site &#8220;Zhurnal&#8217;nyi zal.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>01.05.16<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Piry_SEEJ.pdf\">Performance as power and power as performance In \u201cBelshazzar\u2019s Feasts\u201d by Fazil Iskander<\/a>\/\/ Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 59, No. 3 (2015): 367\u2013390.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.30.15<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/Collaboration.pdf\">Collaboration and Its Discontents: Pasternak and Mandel\u2019stam in the Nineteen Thirties\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ Russian Literature 78 (2015), pp. 683-703.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.10.15<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.03.15<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nm1925.ru\/Archive\/Journal6_2015_8\/Content\/Publication6_4628\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zadachki na pamiat&#8217;<\/a> [Memory tests. Vignettes]\/\/ Novyi mir [New World] 2015, 8: 84-103.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03.14.15<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/magazines.russ.ru\/nlo\/2014\/130\/26zh-pr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Ulitsa Dante.&#8221; Topographiia, toponimika i topika parizhskoi novelly Babelia<\/a>\u00a0[Dante Street\u201d: The Topography, Toponymy and Topoi of Isaak Babel\u2019s Parisian Short Story] \/ &#8220;NLO&#8221;, 2014, 6 (130): 216-230; \u0430lso in the book: Isaak Babel.\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/ulitsa-dante-index\">Dante Street.\u00a0<em>A short story<\/em><\/a>.The idea of the two-book special edition, layout and illustrations by Aleksei Borusov. Published by Leonid Iuniverg. Articles by Elena Pogorel&#8217;skaia and Aleksandr Zholkovsky. Jerusalem: Philobiblon, 2015. Limited edition: 175 copies, 50 of them numbered. Zholkovsky article, Vol. 2: 39-54.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02.09.15<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/PZ-Scherr.docx\">Seeing Tolstoy\u2019s ghost in Khodasevich\u2019s mirror\u00a0<\/a>\/\/ 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<\/p>\n<p><strong>02.09.15<\/strong>\u00a0The Gift[A memoirsitic vignette] \/ Transl\/ by John E. Bowlt \/\/ The Institute of Modern Russian Culture At Blue Lagoon Newsletter 69 (February 2015), pp. 1-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.15.14<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/poetika-za-stolom\">Poetika za chainym stolom i drugie raboty<\/a>\u00a0[Poetics at five o\u2019clock and other analyses]. Moscow, NLO [New Literary Survey], 2014. 820 pp.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/soderzhanie.docx\">Content page in Russian (in Word)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.15.14<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/book.pdf\">Iurii Shecheglov. Izbrannye trudy<\/a>[Selected works]. Ed. by A. K. Zholkovsky and V. A. Shcheglova. Moscow: RGGU [RSUH], 2014. 960 pp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>05.25.14<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/time_money_authorship_Dostoevsky\">Time, Money, and Authorship in Dostoevsky\u2019s &#8220;A Gentle Spirit.&#8221;<\/a>Paper at the Symposium on Russian and Comparative Literature in Memory of Professor Emeritus James L. Rice (Eugene, Oregon, Friday, May 16, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.27.14<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/listomania\">Listomania, or Catalog as Technique.<\/a>With examples from poetry and prose, classical and modern, Western and Russian. An invite lecture at UC Berkeley, Monday March 31, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.25.14<\/strong>\u00a0Michelle Boston.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/1692\/writing-on-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing on Russia<\/a>: Slavic languages and literatures professors Marcus Levitt and Alexander Zholkovsky are honored for their critical work examining Russian culture and literature. In: USC Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences News [online], April 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06.10.13<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/magazines.russ.ru\/zvezda\/2013\/8\/17zh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grammatika prostoty<\/a>(\u201cLiubit\u2019 inykh \u2013 tiazhelyi krest\u2026\u201d) [A Grammar of Simplicity (\u201cTo Love Others Is a Heavy Cross\u2026\u201d)] Zvezda [The Star], 2013, 8: 219-227.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06.10.13<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/magazines.russ.ru\/novyi_mi\/2013\/8\/13zh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kliuchi schast\u2019ia<\/a>(\u201cLiubit\u2019 inykh \u2013 tiazhelyi krest\u2026\u201d) [Key to Happiness] Novy mir [New World], 2013, 8: 179-193.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06.10.13<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/primerussia.ru\/interview_posts\/238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vin\u2019etist. Interv\u2019u Maksimu Semeliaku<\/a>[The Vignettist. An Interview given to Maksim Semeliak] \/\/ The Prime Russian Magazine 2013, 5 (20): 1-18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.05.2012.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.23.2012.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/madison-site\">Poetics Today: Some Burning Issues<\/a>. Keynote Lecture \/\/ AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference, 12-13 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.14.2012.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.25.2011.<\/strong>\u00a0<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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.19.2011.<\/strong>\u00a0<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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.19.2011.<\/strong>\u00a0<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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.08.2007.<\/strong>\u00a0Barry P. Scherr (Dartmouth College).\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/rev1\">Review<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Slavic and East European Journal<\/em>, v. 50, 2 (2006). P. 321-322.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.30.2007.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/zosh-index\">Mikhail Zoshchenko: Poetika nedoveriia<\/a>[Mikhail Zoshchenko: A Poetics of Mistrust]. M.: Shkola &#8220;Iazyki Russkoi Kul&#8217;tury,&#8221; 1999. 393 pp.; Moscow: LKI, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>05.14.2007.<\/strong>\u00a0Eduard Limonov.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.limonov.de\/rar\/EL_85.rar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">85 stikhotvoirenii iz Arkhiva Aleksandra Zholkovskogo<\/a>\u00a0(konets 60-kh &#8212; nachalo 70-kh gg.) [Eduard Limonov. 85 poems from the Archive of Alexander Zholkovsky (late 1960s&#8211; early 1970s)].<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.25.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib22\">The poetic structure of a maxim by La Rochefoucauld<\/a>: An essay in &#8220;Theme &#8211; Text&#8221; poetics [co-author Iu. K. Shcheglov]. Poetics and Theory of Literature 3 (1978), 549-592; Russian version in: Paremiologicheskii sbornik [Essays on paremiology], G. L. Permjakov ed., Moscow: Nauka, 1978 (revised version of No. 9).<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.19.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib6\">The Somali Story &#8220;A Soothsayer Tested&#8221; (<em>short version<\/em>)<\/a>\u00a0in: A Soothsayer Tested. Somali Folktales, ed.and tr. by G. Kapchits, Moscow, 2006, p. 205-217.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.14.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/bib41\">October 19, 1982, or: The semiotics of a Soviet cookie wrapper<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Wiener Slawistischer Alamanach<\/i>\u00a011 (1983; special Mel&#8217;chuk issue), 341-354.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.06.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.06.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/film\">You Don\u2019t Know What You\u2019re Missing.<\/a>\u00a0Hermitage Magazine 2006, No. 2:32-33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03.22.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/palissandria\">The stylistic roots of\u00a0<i>Palisandria<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<i>Canadian-American Slavic Studies<\/i>\u00a0(special Sasha Sokolov issue; D. Barton Johnson guest ed.) 21, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1987 [actually publ. 1990], 369-400).<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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\u044e<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.24.2006.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/11\/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<i>New Literary History<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\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":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s New - Alexander Zholkovsky<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/newa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s New - Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/newa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-12T02:09:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/newa\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/newa\/\",\"name\":\"What's New - 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