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Moscow: RGGU, 2005: 654 pp.<\/p>\n

Alexander\u00a0 ZHOLKOVSKY<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book by the University of Southern California Professor Alexander Zholkovsky collects 25 articles representative of his major contributions to literary scholarship over three decades. They comprise his 1970s-1980s studies in the poetcis of expressiveness, co-founded by him and Yuri Shcheglov, his post-structuralist and deconstructive essays of the 1990s, and a sampling of his recent explorations in infinitive poetry that defined this new field of study. Lyrics by Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Vladislav Khodasevich, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandel\u2019shtam, Vladimir Maiakovskii, Vadim Shershenevich, Bulat Okudzhava, Iosif Brodskii, and Eduard Limonov are analyzed with respect to their thematic and structural invariants, self-fashioning strategies and textual interrelations with one another and with genres of poetic discourse. The formal textual analysis draws on the author\u2019s linguistic experience as one of the founders of the \u201cMeaning \u2013 Text\u201d theory. The book targets a wide range of readers interested in linguistic and literary studies.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

On the poetic world of Alexander Pushkin<\/dir>
\nPushkin’s \u201cI loved you once\u2026\u201d: Invariants and structure<\/a>
\n\u201cI drink to the military asters…\u201d: Osip Mandel’shtam’s poetic self-portrait<\/a>
\nKeyboard strolls without a pass: Mandel’shtam’s \u201cDo not compare \u2013 a living one is incomparable…\u201d<\/a>
\nA poetics of arbitrariness and the arbitrariness of poetics: Vladimir Maiakovskii’s \u201cA countryhouse incident\u201d<\/a>
\n\u201cParadise disguised as a courtyard\u201d: Notes on the poetic world of Bulat Okudzhava<\/a><\/p>\n

II<\/p>\n

Anna Akhmatova \u2014 fifty years later<\/a>
\nBoris Pasternak’s book of books: On the title trope of \u201cMy sister — life\u201d<\/a>
\nOn genius, villainy, a stupid hag, and the all-Russian scale (Deconstructing Maiakovskii)<\/a>
\nAkhmatova and Maiakovskii: Towards a theory of parody<\/a>
\nEduard Limonov at literary Olympics: Limonov\u00a0vs.\u00a0<\/em>Mandel’shtam<\/a>
\nIn the minus first and minus second mirrors: Tatiana Tolstaia and Viktor Erofeev\u00a0vs<\/em>. Anna Akhmatova<\/a><\/p>\n

III<\/p>\n

Structure and quoting: Akhmatova’s intertextual techniques<\/a>
\nTo spin, to conceal: On a Vladislav Khodasevich translation from Adam Mickiewicz<\/a>
\n\u201cI loved you once…\u201d Iosif Brodskii style<\/a>
\nIntetextual malgre lui: Limonov’s \u201cI will hold another person in my thoughts…\u201d<\/a>
\nA theme and variations: Pasternak\u00a0vs.<\/em>\u00a0Okudzhava<\/a>
\nSoviet nonconformist classics in post-soviet perspective: Rethinking the canon<\/a><\/p>\n

IV<\/p>\n

<\/dir>Notes on Pushkin\u2019s \u201cA statue in Tsarskoe Selo\u201d
\nThe intertextual progeny of Pushkin\u2019s \u201cI loved you once…\u201d<\/a>
\nHappiness and rights\u00a0sub specie infinitivi<\/em>: Pushkin\u2019s \u201cFrom Pindemonti\u201d<\/a>
\nInfinitive writing in Vadim Shershenevich<\/a>
\nInfinitives and the structure of a poem: Brodskii\u2019s \u201cLeiklos\u201d<\/a>
\nFrom notes on the poetry of grammar: Pasternak\u2019s figurative voices<\/a>
\nA ballad of self-control: verse and meaning in Pasternak\u2019s \u201cBallad\u201d for Genrikh Neigauz<\/a>
\nNotes
\nReferences
\nIndex<\/em><\/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-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSelected Studies in Russian Poetry: Invariants, structures, strategies, intertexts - 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\/invariants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Selected Studies in Russian Poetry: Invariants, structures, strategies, intertexts - Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/invariants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alexander Zholkovsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-15T03:42:15+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\/invariants\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/invariants\/\",\"name\":\"Selected Studies in Russian Poetry: Invariants, structures, strategies, intertexts - 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