Sl.4:RussianLiteratureandCulturefromtheGoldenAgetotheSilverAge

ChekhovandTolstoyinCrimea(1901)

CourseAdviser:DrDanielGreen(dlcg3@cam.ac.uk)

Handbook2019-20(updatedJune2019)

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Contents1. Introduction……………………………………................................................3

2. OverviewofTextsandTopicsfor2019-20……………………………………..3

3. Teaching&Assessment…………………………………………………………………4

4. PreparatoryReading……………………………………………………………………..5

5. ReadingLists…………………………………………………………………………………5

UsingtheReadingLists………………………………………………………5

SectionA:SetTexts……………………………………………………………6

SectionB:Topics………………………………………………………………..10

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Sl.4:RussianLiteratureandCulturefromtheGoldenAgetotheSilverAgeIntroductionThenineteenthcenturysawtherapiddevelopmentofRussianliteraryculture–fromtheemergenceofthemodernRussianliterarylanguageinpoetry,totheriseofthegreatRussiannovel,and,bytheendofthecentury,thelaunchofmodernisminRussia.Boldintheirformalandaestheticinnovations,theworksofthisperiodposethedecisivequestionsofRussianmodernityandpursueurgentissuesofsocial,politicalandtheologicalimport.ThecourseisastudyofRussianliteraturefromthebeginningofthenineteenthcenturythroughtotheveryearlytwentiethcenturyandintroducesstudentstoarangeofauthors,genresandissues.Inordertoachieveabalanceofdepthandbreadth,thepaperisorganizedaroundthestudyoftwosettextsandfourtopics.(TherearesuggestedpathwaysthroughthetextsandtopicstailoredtoPartIB,optionA(ex-abinitio)students,butstudentsshouldnotfeellimitedtothese.)OverviewofTextsandTopicsfor2019-20SetTexts:A1.AleksandrPushkin,EvgeniiOnegin(1825-32)A2.LevTolstoi,AnnaKarenina(1873-77)Topics:B1.LyricPoetry(1820s-80s)B2.PetersburgTales(1830s-40s)B3.FictionandIdeologyinthe1860sB4.Chekhov:ProseandPlays(1880s-1904)

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Teaching

WeeklylecturesinMichaelmasandLent;weeklyrevisionseminarsinEaster.Tenfortnightlysupervisionsthroughouttheyear.StudentstakingtheLongEssayoptioncandiscussadjustmentstotheschedulebelowthatbestaccommodatetheirinterests.

LectureScheduleMichaelmas LentWk. Lecture Supervision Wk. Lecture Supervision1 LyricPoetry 1 AnnaKarenina 2 LyricPoetry LyricPoetry 2 AnnaKarenina AnnaKarenina3 EvgeniiOnegin 3 1860s 4 EvgeniiOnegin EvgeniiOnegin 4 1860s AnnaKarenina5 EvgeniiOnegin 5 1860s 6 PetersburgTales EvgeniiOnegin 6 Chekhov 1860s7 PetersburgTales 7 Chekhov 8 AnnaKarenina Gogol/Dostoevsky 8 Conclusions Chekhov EasterRevisionsessionsinlectureslots,Weeks1-3(2hrs).2xrevisionsupervisions.

AssessmentAssessmentbyLongEssayinsteadoffinalexaminationisavailableinthispaperforstudentsinPartIB(OptionsA&B).Theexaminationisstructuredasfollows:SectionAwillconsistofacommentaryononeofthesettextsandessayquestionsontheother.SectionBwillofferseveralquestionsoneachoftheprescribedtopicsaswellasmoreopenquestionsthatmightbeansweredwithreferencetoawiderangeoftextsandperiods.AllquestionsinSectionBwillrequirecandidatestowriteaboutatleasttwotextsofwhichatleastonemustbealiterarytext.

Allcandidatesmustanswerthreequestions.StudentsforPartIB(OptionsA&B)answer:

1questionfromSectionAanyother2questions(whichmayinclude1furtherquestionfromSectionA)

StudentsforPartIIanswer:

1questionfromSectionA2questionsfromSectionB

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PreparatoryReadingandGeneralBackgroundStudentsareurgedtobuyandreadbothSetTextsduringthesummer(orYearAbroad),aswellasanyoptionallongertextstheywishtocover(i.e.Prestuplenieinakazanie).Thefollowingreadinglistservesasanintroductiontothesubject.

Emerson,Caryl.TheCambridgeIntroductiontoRussianLiterature.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2008.[Especiallychapters1,4,5,and6]

Todd,WilliamMills,III.FictionandSocietyintheAgeofPushkin:Ideology,InstitutionsandNarrative.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress,1986.[Especiallychapters1,2,3]

Jones,MalcolmV.andRobinFeuerMiller,eds.TheCambridgeCompaniontotheClassicRussianNovel.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998.[Availableonlinethroughthelibrarycatalogue]

Wachtel,AndrewandIlyaVinitsky.“TheSpiritofPoetry:RussianCultureintheAgeofAlexanderI(1801–25).”InRussianLiterature.Cambridge:Polity,2009.57-88.

Wachtel,Michael.CambridgeIntroductiontoRussianPoetry.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2004.[Especiallychapters1,2,3,and4;Availableonlinethroughthelibrarycatalogue]

AndrzejWalicki,AHistoryofRussianThoughtfromtheEnlightenmenttoMarxism.Trans.HildaAndrews-Rusiecka.Oxford:ClarendonPress,1980.[Especiallychapters3,5,6,7,8,and11]

Studentsshouldreadthroughascholarlyhistoryof19th-centuryRussiasuchas:Freeze,Gregory,ed.Russia:AHistory.3rdedition.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2009.

[Chapters5,6,7,and8]Riasanovsky,NicholasandMarkSteinberg.AHistoryofRussia.9thEdition.NewYork,NY:

OxfordUniversityPress,2019.[Chapters24-30]

ReadingListsUsingtheReadingListsThe lists below specify Primary and Secondary texts. The lists are extensive but notexhaustive:inotherwords,youshouldfeelneitherdauntednorlimitedbythem!SectionsB&C(PrescribedAuthors&Topics)! Remember thatyouwillbemakingselections fromamong theprimary textshere; theyarenotallcompulsoryreading.! In particular, students are reminded that the novel Prestuplenie i nakazanie byDostoevsky(B3)isoptional,andyoushouldplanaheadifyouwanttoreadit.! Studentsshouldconsultwiththeirsupervisortoselectprimarytextsfromthesuggestedoptionsaccordingtotheir interestsandexperience inRussian.Studentsmayalsochoosetoreadrelevantprimarytextsthatarenotlistedhere.SecondaryReadingsThesuggestionsforsecondaryreadingrepresentacollectionofresourcesandmenusofpossibilities:nooneexpectsyoutodoallofthereadingbelow!Yoursupervisorwillhelpyoutoorientateyourselfwithinthebibliography,andtouseyourtimeefficiently,bysuggestingthosetextswhichmostcloselyrelatetothethemesandapproachesthatinterestyou.

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SectionA:SetTextsA1.A.S.Pushkin,EvgeniiOnegin(1825-32)! Formerabinitiostudents(i.e.thoseinPartIB,OptionA)areonlyrequiredtoreadchapters1,2,7and8inRussian;theymustreadtheentirenovelinEnglishinordertofollowtheplot.! Recommendedtranslation:JamesE.Falen! Inaddition,althoughitdoesnotmakefor‘smoothreading’,Nabokov’sliteraltranslation,readsidebysidewiththeoriginal,isveryhelpful:itmakesforanexcellentprimerinreadingRussianverse,understandingtheflexibilityofwordorderetc.! StudentsinPartIB,OptionBandPartIIshouldreadtheentirenovelinRussian.

Background,Biography,ReferenceBethea,David,ed.ThePushkinHandbook.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2006.Binyon,T.J.Pushkin.ABiography.London,2003.Kahn,Andrew,ed.CambridgeCompaniontoPushkin.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,

2006.CommentaryLotman,Iurii.RomanPushkina“EvgeniiOnegin”:Kommentarii.Leningrad:Prosveshchenie,

1983.Nabokov,Vladimir(transl.,introd.andextensivecommentary).EugeneOnegin:ANovelin

VersebyAleksandrPushkin.4vols.London:Routledge&KeganPaul,1964.OtherSecondaryReadings(i)Introductory/studentsurveystudies:Briggs,A.D.P.AleksandrPushkin:“EugeneOnegin.”Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,

1992.Clayton,J.Douglas.IceandFlame.AleksandrPushkin’s“EugeneOnegin.”Toronto:University

ofTorontoPress,1985.Dalton-Brown,S.Puskhin’sEvgeniiOnegin.Bristol:BristolClassicalPress,1997.Levitt,Marcus.“EvgeniiOnegin.”InAndrewKahn,ed.CambridgeCompaniontoPushkin.

Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006.(ii)SeminalRussianscholarship:Hoisington,Sona,ed.RussianViewsofPushkin’sEugeneOnegin.Bloomington:Indiana

UniversityPress,1988.Lotman(see‘Commentary’above)Shklovskii,Viktor.“EugeneOnegin(PushkinandSterne).”Trans.EmilyFiner.Comparative

CriticalStudies1,no.1–2(June1,2004):171–193.Ginzburg,Lidiia.“Kpostanovkeproblemyrealizmavpushkinskoiliterature.”Vremennik

pushkinskoikomissii(ANSSSR,1936):387-401.(iii)Seminal/extensivestudiesinwesternscholarship:Emerson,Caryl.“Tatiana.”InSoniaHoisington,ed.APlotofHerOwn.theFemaleProtagonist

inRussianLiterature.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1995.6-20.

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Greenleaf,Monika.PushkinandRomanticFashion:Fragment,Elegy,Orient,Irony.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1997.[Seeespeciallypages205-286]

Hasty,OlgaPeters.Pushkin’sTatiana.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,1999.Todd,WilliamMills,III.“EugeneOnegin:‘Life’sNovel.’”InWilliamMillsToddIII,ed.Literature

andSocietyintheAgeofPushkin.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress,1986.(iv)Articleswithuseful,specificfocus:Cravens,C.“LyricandNarrativeConsciousnessin‘EugeneOnegin.’”SlavicandEastEuropean

Journal46,no.4(2002):683–709.Dvigubski,Anna.“‘AndWhatofMyOnegin?’DisplacementandReinventionoftheHeroin

EugeneOnegin.”TheRussianReview72,no.1(2013):1–23.Gelder,Ann.“WanderinginExile:ByronandPushkin.”ComparativeLiterature42:4(Autumn,

1990),319-334.Greg,Richard.“StanzaandPlotinEvgeniiOnegin:ASymbiosis?”SlavonicandEastEuropean

Review72:4(October1994),609-621.Hoisington,SonaStephan.“‘EugeneOnegin’:AnInvertedByronicPoem.”Comparative

Literature27(1975):136.-----.“ParodyinEvgeniiOnegin:Lenskii’sLament.”CanadianSlavonicPapers/Revue

CanadienneDesSlavistes:AnInterdisciplinaryJournalDevotedtoCentralandEasternEurope29,no.2–3(June1,1987):266–278.

Ketchian,S.I.“‘What’sHiddeninMyName?’:NamesasaWindowintoPushkin’s‘EvgenijOnegin’.”RussianLiterature60,no.2(August2006):159–183.

Lesic-Thomas,Andrea.“FocalizationinPushkin’sEugeneOneginandLermontov’sAHeroofOurTime:LovingtheSemanticVoidandtheDizzinessofInterpretation.”TheModernLanguageReview103,no.4(October1,2008).

Reid,RobertandJoeAndrew,eds.TwoHundredYearsofPushkin.VolsIIandIII.AmsterdamandNewYork:Rodopi,2003-4.[RecommendedarticlesinVolII:Bethea,Palmer;inVolIII:Freeborn,Weststeijn,Clayton,DeHaard,Livingstone.]

Reyfman,Irina.RitualizedViolenceRussianStyle:TheDuelinRussianCultureandLiterature.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1999.

Semenko,I.M.,andSonaHoisington.“The‘Author’inEugeneOnegin:ImageandFunction.”Canadian-AmericanSlavicStudies29,no.3–4(January1,1995):233–255.

Wachtel,Michael,“TheOneginstanza:frompoeticdigressiontopoeticnostalgia.”InTheDevelopmentofRussianVerse:MeteranditsMeanings.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006.

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A2:L.N.Tolstoi,AnnaKarenina(1873-77)! Formerabinitiostudents(i.e.thoseinPartIB,OptionA)readatleasttheextractsspecifiedbelowinRussian(roughlyonethirdofthenovel);theyreadtheentirenovelinEnglishinordertofollowtheplot:PartI:1-4,7-11,13,16-23,26-34;Part2:7-12,21-29;Part3:1-5,13-16,22-25,31-32;Part4:1,3-5,9-13,15-23;Part6:3,7-16,19-20,31-33;Part7:9-16,23-31;Part8:8-19.

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! Recommendedtranslations:eitherRosemaryEdmondsORRichardPevearandLarissaVolokhonsky.! StudentsinPartIB,OptionBandPartIIreadtheentirenovelinRussian.Background,Biography,ReferenceBartlett,Rosamund.Tolstoy:ARussianLife(ProfilePress,2011).[Biography]Eikhenbaum,Boris.Tolstoivsemidesiatykhgodakh.InEnglish:TolstoiintheSeventies.Trans.

AlbertKaspin.AnnArbor,MI:Ardis,1982.[Amasterfulblendofbiographical,philologicalandtextualanalysisbyaleading‘formalist’critic]

Freeze,Gregory.“ReformandCounterreform,1855-1890.”InGregoryFreeze,ed.Russia:AHistory.NewYork,NY:OxfordUniversityPress,1997.170-199.[Historicalcontext]

Knapp,LizaandAmyMandelker,eds.ApproachestoTeachingTolstoy’sAnnaKarenina.NewYork,NY:MLA,2003.[Excellent,veryusefulanthologyofshortcriticaltexts]

RelevantTheoreticalWorks(notdealingwithAnnaKareninaexplicitly):Bakhtin,Mikhail.“FormsofTimeandoftheChronotopeintheNovel:Notestowarda

HistoricalPoetics.”InMichaelHolquist,ed.DialogicImagination:FourEssays.UniversityofTexasPress,1982.84-85,224-258.

Brooks,Peter.ReadingforthePlot:DesignandIntentioninNarrative.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress,1992.3-61.

Tanner,Tony.AdulteryintheNovel:ContractandTransgression.Baltimore,MD:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1981.

Auerbach,Eric.“Odysess'sScar.”InMimesis:TheRepresentationofRealityinWesternLiterature.Trans.WillardR.Task.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress,2003.2-23.

Jakobson,Roman.“OnRealisminArt.”InLadislavMatejkaandKrystynaPomorska,eds.ReadingsinRussianPoetics:FormalistandStructuralistViews.Cambridge,MA:TheMITPress,1971.38-46

! forwrestlingwith'Realism':seealsoentriesforGustafson,KligerandKovarskybelow. Workswhichpromotesomethingapproachinga“comprehensive”readingofthenovel,

throughextensiveengagementwiththetextand/orbydintofinterpretativeapproach:Alexandrov,Vladimir.LimitstoInterpretation.TheMeaningsofAnnaKarenina.Madison:

WisconsinUniversityPress:2004.Gustafson,Richard.“ThePoeticsofEmblematicRealism.”InLeoTolstoy:Residentand

Stranger:AStudyinFictionandTheology.PrincetonUniversityPress,1986.202-213.Kliger,Ilya.“Tolstoy'sPlotlinesandTruthShapes.”InTheNarrativeShapeofTruth:Veridiction

inModernEuropeanLiterature.UniversityPark,PA:PennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress,2011.145-176.

Mandelker,Amy.FramingAnnaKarenina:Tolstoy,theWomanQuestion,andtheVictorianNovel.Columbus:OhioStateUP,1993.

Morson,GarySaul.AnnaKareninainOurTime.NewHaven,CT:YaleUniversityPress,2007.-----.“AnnaKarenina’sOmens.”InE.C.AllenandG.S.Morson,eds.Freedomand

ResponsibilityinRussianLiterature.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1995.134-152.

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Ontheepigraph:Eikhenbaum,Boris.TolstoiintheSeventies.Trans.AlbertKaspin.AnnArbor,MI:Ardis,1982.Holland,Kate.“TheOpeningofAnnaKarenina.”InLizaKnappandAmyMandelker,eds.

ApproachestoTeachingTolstoy’sAnnaKarenina.NewYork,NY:MLA,2003.144-149.Morson,GarySaul.“Tolstoy'sAbsoluteLanguage.”CriticalInquiry7:4(Summer1981):667-

687.OtherSecondaryReadings:usethetitlestonavigateissuesthatinterestyou,orconsultyoursupervisorforrecommendations.! anumberofarticlesappearineditionsoftheTolstoyStudiesJournal(abbreviatedbelow:TSJ)[inUL:NorthFront,Fl5,P576.b.29]Alexandrov,Vladimir.“RelativeTimeinAnnaKarenina.”RussianReview41:2(April1982):

159-68.Bendiksen,AnnaPrimrose.“TheSwishingoftheScythes:TheMowingSceneinAnna

Karenina.”RussianLiterature40:4(November1996):517-523.Bloom,Harold,ed.LeoTolstoy’s“AnnaKarenina.”NewYork:ChelseaHouse,1987.deSherbinin,Julie.“TheDismantlingofHierarchyandtheDefenseofSocialClassinAnna

Karenina.”RussianReview70:4(October2011):646-662.Emerson,Caryl.“ProsaicsinAnnaKarenina:ProandCon.”TSJVIII:150-76.Evdokimova,Svetlana.“TheDrawingandtheGreaseSpot:CreativityandInterpretationin

AnnaKarenina.”TSJVIII:33-45.Goscilo,Helena.“TolstoyanFare:CredoalaCarte.”SlavonicandEastEuropeanReview62:4

(October1984):481-495.[JSTOR]Herman,David.“AllowablePassionsinAnnaKarenina.”TSJVIII:5-32.Jahn,Gary.“TheImageoftheRailroadinAnnaKarenina.”SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal

25:2(1981):1-10.Knapp,Liza.“TheEstatesofPokrovskoeandVozdvizhenskoe:Tolstoy’sLabyrinthofLinkings

inAnnaKarenina.”TSJVIII:81-98.Knapp,Liza.“Tue-la!Tue-le!:DeathSentences,Words,andInnerMonologuein

Tolstoy’sAnnaKareninaandThreeMoreDeaths.”TSJXI:1-19.Knapp,Liza.AnnaKareninaandOthers:Tolstoy’sLabyrinthofPlots.Madison:Univeristyof

WisconsinPress,2016.Kovarsky,Gina.“MimesisandMoralEducationinAnnaKarenina.”TSJVIII:61-80.Kujundzic,Dragan.“PardoningWomaninAnnaKarenina.”TSJVI:65-86.Lonnqvist,Barbara.“AnnaKarenina.”InDonnaTussingOrwin,ed.TheCambridgeCompanion

toTolstoy.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2002.80-95.Meyer,Priscilla.“‘AnnaKarenina,’Rousseau,andtheGospels.”RussianReview66:2(April

2007):204-219.-----.‘AnnaKarenina:Tolstoy’sPolemicwithMadameBovary,’RussianReview54:2(April

1995):243-259.-----.“Tolstoy,AnnaKarenina.”InHowtheRussiansReadtheFrench.Madison:Universityof

WisconsinPress,2008.152-209.Morson,GarySaul.“PoeticJustice,FalseListening,andFallinginLove,Or,WhyAnnaRefuses

aDivorce.”TSJVIII:177-197.-----.“WhatisAgriculture?”RussianLiterature40(1996):481-490.

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-----.“WorkandtheAuthenticLifeinTolstoy.”TSJIX:36-48.Orwin,DonnaTussing.Tolstoy’sArtandThought,1847-1880.Princeton,NJ:Princeton

UniversityPress,1993.Paperno,Irina.“Who,WhatamI?”TolstoyStrugglestoNarratetheSelf.Ithaca,NY:Cornell

UniversityPress,2014.Schultze,Sydney.TheStructureofAnnaKarenina.AnnArbor,MI:Ardis,1982.Seifrid,Thomas.“GazingonLife'sPage:PerspectivalVisioninTolstoy.”PMLA113:3(May

1998):436-448.Tapp,Alyson.“MovingStories:(E)motionandNarrativeinAnnaKarenina.”RussianLiterature

61:3(2007):341-361.Turner,C.J.G.“Psychology,RhetoricandMoralityinAnnaKarenina.”SEEJ39:2(1995):261-

268.[JSTOR]Weir,Justin.“AnnaIncommunicada:LanguageandConsciousnessinAnnaKarenina.”TSJVIII:

99-111.Whitcomb,Curt.“ResistingtheEffortlessinAnnaKarenina.”TSJVII:32-43.-----.“Treacherous«Charm»inAnnaKarenina.”SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal39:2

(Summer1995):214-226.[JSTOR]

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SectionB:TopicsB1:LyricPoetry(Michaelmas)SelectedpoemsbyPushkin,Lermontov,Tiutchev,Fet.Theyearinbracketsindicatestheyearofcomposition.Poemsmarked*aresuggestedfortheattentionofPartIB,OptionAstudents.A.S.Pushkin

*К***<Kern>(Iapomniuchudnoemgnoven’e)(1825)*Prorok(1826)*“Iavasliubil:liubov’eshche,byt’mozhet”(1829)Stikhi,sochinennyenoch’iuvovremiabessonnitsy(1830)Osen’(Otryvok)(1833)“Pora,moidrug,pora!pokoiaserdtseprosit”(1834)*“Iapamiatniksebevozdvignerukotvornyi”(1836)

M.Iu.Lermontov*“Net,ianeBairon,iadrugoi”(1832)*Parus(1832)Smert’poeta(1837)Iskuchnoigrustno(1840)Tuchi(1840)*“Vykhozhuodinianadorogu”(1841)

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F.I.Tiutchev Silentium!(1830)

*Posledniaialiubov’(1854)“Kakkhoroshoty,omorenochnoe”(1865)*“Pevuchest’est’vmorskikhvolnakh”(1865)*“UmomRossiiuneponiat’”(1866)

A.A.Fet

*“Shepot.Robkoedykhan’e”(1850)Neotrazimyiobraz(1856)*A.L.Brzheskoi(Dalekiidrug,poimimoirydan’ia)(1879)“Stranitsymilyeopiat’perstyraskryli”(1884)*“Net,ianeizmenil.Dostarostiglubokoi”(1887)

SecondaryReadings

OnversificationThegoldstandardforRussianversificationisBarryScherr’sbook:Scherr,Barry.RussianPoetry:Meter,RhythmandRhyme.Berkeley,CA:Universityof

CaliforniaPress,1986.However,itisfairlylongandcontainsmuchmorethanyoumayneed.Instead,IsuggestlookingatScherr’sarticlesinVictorTerras’sHandbookofRussianLiterature:Scherr,Barry.“Versification,HistoricalSurveyofRussian,”“SyllabotonicVersification,”and

“Rhyme.”InVictorTerras,ed.HandbookofRussianLiterature.London:YaleUniveristyPress,1985.504-508,458-460,and369-371.

YoumightalsolookatMichaelWachtel’sbook,TheCambridgeIntroductiontoRussianPoetry.Chapters1-3areaboutreadingapoemandchapter1alsogivesagoodoverviewofversification.Wachtel,Michael.TheCambridgeIntroductiontoRussianPoetry.Cambridge:Cambridge

UniversityPress,2004.OnpoetryBristol,Evelyn.AHistoryofRussianPoetry.NewYork,NYandOxford:OxfordUniversityPress,

1991.Sandler,Stephanie,ed.RereadingRussianPoetry.NewHaven,CTandLondon:YaleUniversity

Press,1999.Ginzburg,L.Ia.Olirike.2ndedition.Moscow:Sovetskiipisatel’,1974.Greene,RolandandStephenCushman,eds.ThePrincetonEncyclopediaofPoetryandPoetics.

4thedition.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress,2012.[Availableonlinethroughthelibrarycatalogue]

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Khitrova,Daria.LyricComplicity:PoetryandReadersintheGoldenAgeofRussianLiterature.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2019.

WorksonindividualpoetsTosetthepoetsquicklyintothecontextsinwhichtheywerewriting,itmightbehelpfulinthefirstinstancetorefertoencyclopaediasandotherreferences.Forexample:Cornwell,Neil.ReferenceguidetoRussianliterature.London:FitzroyDearborn,1998.Fennell,John.Nineteenth-centuryRussianLiterature.London:Faber&Faber,1973.Kahn,Andrewetal.AHistoryofRussianLiterature.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2018.

[Availableonlinethroughthelibrarycatalogue]Murray,ChristopherJohn.EncyclopediaoftheRomanticEra,1760-1850.NewYork,NY:

FitzroyDearborn,2004.PushkinBinyon,T.J.Pushkin:ABiography.NewYork,NY:AlfredA.Knopf,2003.Bethea,DavidandSergeiDavydov.“Pushkin’sBiography.”InDavidBethea,ed.ThePushkin

Handbook.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2005.3-24.Eikhenbaum,Boris.“Pushkin,Tiutchev,Lermontov.”InMelodika:russkogoliricheskogo

stikha.Leipzig:ZentralantiquariatderDeutschenDemokratischenRepublik,1973.72-118.

Gasparov,Boris.“PushkinandRomanticism.”InDavidBethea,ed.ThePushkinHandbook.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2005.537-567.

Gasparov,M.L.“Pushkiniproblemypoeticheskoiformy.”InDavidBethea,ed.ThePushkinHandbook.Madison:UniversityofWisconsinPress,2005.60-79.

Golburt,Luba.“AlexanderPushkinasaRomantic.”InPaulHamilton,ed.TheOxfordHandbookofEuropeanRomanticism.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2016.512-532.

Greenleaf,Monika.PushkinandRomanticFashion:Fragment,Elegy,Orient,Irony.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1994.

Greenleaf,Monika.“FromEpitaphtoElegy:Russia’sEntryintoEuropeanCulture.”InPushkinandRomanticFashion.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1994.56-107.

Kahn,Andrew.“Pushkin’sLyricIdentities.”InAndrewKahn,ed.TheCambridgeCompaniontoPushkin.Cambridge,CambridgeUniversityPress,2007.26-40.

-----.Pushkin’sLyricIntelligence.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2008.[Goodforconsultationonindividualpoems]

Malmstad,John.PushkinandHisFriends:TheMakingofaLiteratureandaMyth:AnExhibitionoftheKilgourCollection.Cambridge,MA:TheHoughtonLibrary,1987.

Sandler,Stephanie.DistantPleasures:AlexanderPushkinandtheWritingofExile.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1989.

Wachtel,Michael.ACommentarytoPushkin’sLyricPoetry1826-1836.Madison:TheUniversityofWisconsinPress,2011.[Ausefulcommentary/glossaryaidsinreadingofindividualpoemsfromPushkin’slaterperiod]

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LermontovBinyon,T.J.“Lermontov,TyutchevandFet.”InJohnFennell,ed.Nineteenth-CenturyRussian

Literature:StudiesofTenWriters.London:Faber,1973.168-224.Eikhenbaum,Boris.“Pushkin,Tiutchev,Lermontov.”InMelodika:russkogoliricheskogo

stikha.Leipzig:ZentralantiquariatderDeutschenDemokratischenRepublik,1973.72-118.

Garrard,John.MikhailLermontov.Boston:TwaynePublishers,1982.Manuilov,V.A.etal.,eds.Lermontovskaiaentsiklopediia.Moscow:Sovetskaiaentsiklopediia,

1981.Powelstock,David.“LivingintoLanguage:MikhailLermontovandtheManufacturingof

Intimacy.”InMonikaGreenleafandStephenMoellerSally,eds.RussianSubjects:Empire,Nation,andtheCultureoftheGoldenAge.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1998.297-324.

-----.BecomingMikhailLermontov.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,2005.Ram,Harsha.TheImperialSublime:ARussianPoeticsofEmpire.Madison:Universityof

WisconsinPress,2003.

TiutchevBinyon,T.J.“Lermontov,TyutchevandFet.”InJohnFennell,ed.Nineteenth-CenturyRussian

Literature:StudiesofTenWriters.London:Faber,1973.168-224.Gregg,RichardA.FedorTiutchev;theEvolutionofaPoet.NewYork,NY:ColumbiaUniversity

Press,1965.Dewey,John.MirroroftheSoul:aLifeofthePoetFyodorTyutchev.Shaftesbury:Brimstone

Press,2010.Pratt,Sarah.RussianMetaphysicalRomanticism:thePoetryofTiutchevandBoratynskii.

Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1984.FetBukshtab,B.Ia.A.A.Fet:Ocherkzhizniitvorchestva.Leningrad:Nauka,1974.Binyon,T.J.“Lermontov,TyutchevandFet.”InJohnFennell,ed.Nineteenth-CenturyRussian

Literature:StudiesofTenWriters.London:Faber,1973.168-224.Gustafson,Richard.TheImaginationofSpring:ThePoetryofAfanasyFet.NewHaven:Yale

UniversityPress,1966.Kleinin,Emily.ThePoeticsofAfanasyFet.Cologne:Böhlau,2002.

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B2.PetersburgTalesofGogolandDostoevsky(Michaelmas) N.V.Gogol’

PetersburgTales(1835-36) “NevskiiProspekt”

“Portret”“Zapiskisumasshedshego”“Nos”

Dostoevskii,F.M.

Dvoinik(1846)

SecondaryreadingsGogol:Cornwell,Neil.“AntecedentstotheAbsurd.”InTheAbsurdinLiterature.Manchester:

ManchesterUniversityPress,2006.33-65.Fanger,Donald.TheCreationofNikolaiGogol.Cambridge,MA:BelknapPress,1979.Frazier,Melissa.FramesoftheImagination:Gogol’sArabesquesandtheRomanticQuestion

ofGenre.NewYork:PeterLang,2000.Fusso,SusanneandPriscillaMeyer,eds.EssaysonGogol:LogosandtheRussianWord.

Evanston,IL:NorthwesternEuropeanPress,1992.Graffy,Julian.“TheDevilisintheDetail:DemonicFeaturesofGogol’sPetersburg.”InPamela

Davidson,ed.RussianLiteratureanditsDemons.NewYork,NYandOxford:BerghahnBooks,2000.

Grayson,JaneandFaithWizgell,eds.NikolaiGogol:TextandContext.NewYork,NY:StMartin’sPress,1989.

Holquist,Michael.Dialogism:BakhtinandHisWorld.2ndedition.LondonandNewYork:Routledge,2002.[Seepages118-36on“Zapiski”]

Karlinsky,Simon.TheSexualLabyrinthofNikolaiGogol.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1976.

Maguire,Robert.ExploringGogol.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1994.Maguire,Robert,ed.GogolfromtheTwentiethCentury.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversity

Press,1974.Moeller-Sally,Stephen.“0000;or,TheSignoftheSubjectinGogol’sPetersburg.”InMoika

GreenleafandStephenMoeller-Sally,eds.RussianSubjects:Empire,Nation,andtheCultureoftheGoldenAge.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1998.325-346.

Nabokov,Vladimir.NikolaiGogol.[variouseditions]Peace,Richard.TheEnigmaofGogol.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1981.Popkin,Cathy.ThePragmaticsofInsignificance:Chekhov,Zoshchenko,Gogol.Stanford,CA:

StanfordUP,1993.Seifrid,Thomas.“SuspiciontowardNarrative:TheNoseandtheProblemofAutonomyin

Gogol’s‘Nos’.”RussianReview52:3(July1993):382-396.Spieker,Sven.Gogol:ExploringAbsence:NegativityinNineteenth-centuryRussianliterature.

Bloomington,IN:Slavica,1999.

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LinkstocriticalworksonGogolinRussian:http://feb-web.ru/feb/gogol/default.asp?/feb/gogol/critics/-go-crl1.htm

CollectionsofessaysonGogolcanbefoundinthejournaleditionsEssaysinPoetics,(2003&2004),Vols.28&29.

Dostoevsky:

Bakhtin,Mikhail.ProblemsofDostoevsky’sPoetics.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1984.[Lookintheindexfor‘TheDouble’]

Chizhevsky,Dmitri.“TheThemeofthedoubleinDostoevsky.”InReneWellek,ed.Dosteovsky.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:Prentice-Hall,1962.112-129.

Dryzhakova,Elena.“MadnessasanActofDefenceofPersonalityinDostoevsky’sTheDouble.”InAngelaBrintlingerandIlyaVinitsky,eds.MadnessandtheMadinRussianCulturе.Toronto:UniversityofTorontoPress,2006.59-74.

Fanger,Donald.DostoevskyandRomanticRealism.Chicago,IL:UniversityofChicagoPress,1967.

Morson,GarySaul.“WhatIsItLiketoBeBats?ParadoxesofTheDouble.”InSvetlanaEvdokimovaandVladimirGolstein,eds.DostoevskyBeyondDostoevsky.Boston,MA:AcademicStudiesPress,2016.

---------.“MeandMyDouble:Selfhood,Consciousness,andEmpathyinTheDouble.”InElizabethChereshAllen,ed.BeforeTheyWereTitans:EssaysontheEarlyWorksofDostoevskyandTolstoy.Boston,MA:AcademicStudiesPress,2015.43-60.Porter,Jillian.EconomiesofFeeling:RussianLiteratureUnderNicholasI.Evanston,IL:

NorthwesternUniversityPress,2017.---------.“TheDouble,theRuble,theReal:CounterfeitMoneyinDostoevsky'sDvoinik.”The

SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal58.3(Fall2014):378-93.

~~~~~~~~~B3:FictionandIdeologyinthe1860s(Lent)CoreTexts:Turgenev,Ivan.Otsyideti(1862).Chernyshevskii,Nikolai.“ChetvertyisonVeryPavlovny”(excerptfromChtodelat’?,1863)Dostoevskii,Fedor.Zapiskiizpodpol'ia(1864)PartIB,OptionAstudentsshouldreadPartIinRussian;PartIImaybereadinEnglish.Dostoevskii,Fedor.Prestuplenieinakazanie(1866)–thislongnovelisoptional,butshouldbereadinthevacation/yearabroadbythosewithaparticularinterestinDostoevskii.SecondaryReadingsJones,MalcolmandRobinFeuerMiller,eds.CambridgeCompaniontotheClassicRussian

Novel.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998.[Especiallythechapters“Politics,”“PsychologyandSociety,”and“PhilosophyintheNineteenth-centuryNovel”]

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Leatherbarrow,WilliamandDerekOfford,eds.AHistoryofRussianThought.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2010.

Riasanovsky,Nicholas.RussianIdentities:AHistoricalSurvey.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2005.

Walicki,Andrzej.AHistoryofRussianThoughtfromtheEnlightenmenttoMarxism.Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1979.

TurgenevAllen,ElizabethCheresh.BeyondRealism:Turgenev’sPoeticsofSecularSalvation.Stanford,

CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1992.Mathewson,RufusW.ThePositiveHeroinRussianLiterature.2nded.Evanston,IL:

NorthwesternUniversityPress,1999.Orwin,DonnaTussing.ConsequencesofConsciousness:Turgenev,Dostoevsky,andTolstoy.

Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,2007.[Especiallypages92-112]Paperno,Irina.ChernyshevskyandtheAgeofRealism:AStudyintheSemioticsofBehavior.

Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1988.[SeetheintroductiononthereceptionofOttsyidetiinthe1860s]

Valentino,RusselS.“AWolfinArkadia:GenericFields,GenericCounterstatementandtheResourcesofPastoralinFathersandSons.”RussianReview,vol.55,no.3(Jul.,1996):475-493.[JSTOR]

TheNortonCriticaleditionofFathersandSons(ed.andtrans.MichaelKatz)containsaveryusefulselectionofcriticalmaterialsandarticles.Chernyshevsky(“ChetvertyisonVeryPavlovny”fromChtodelat'?)Paperno,Irina.ChernyshevskyandtheAgeofRealism:AStudyintheSemioticsofBehavior.

Stanford,CA:StanfordUniversityPress,1988.DostoevskyZapiskiizpodpol'iaBakhtin,Mikhail.ProblemsofDostoevsky’sPoetics.Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesota

Press,1984.[Seepages227-37]Frank,Joseph.Dostoevsky:TheStirofLiberation,1860-65.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversity

Press,1977.[Seepages310-467]Holquist,Michael.DostoevskyandtheNovel.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress,1977.Knapp,Liza.TheAnnihilationofInertia:DostoevskyandMetaphysics.NorthwesternUP:1996.Peace,Richard.Dostoevsky’sNotesfromUnderground.London:BristolClassicalPress,1993.PrestuplenieinakazanieBloom,Harold,ed.FyodorDostoevsky’sCrimeandPunishment.Philadelphia,PA:Chelsea

HousePublishers,2004.Frank,Joseph.Dostoevsky:TheMiraculousYears,1865-1871.Princeton,NJ:Princeton

UniversityPress,1995.

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Jackson,RobertLouis,ed.Twentieth-centuryInterpretationsofCrimeandPunishment.EnglewoodCliffs,NJandLondon:Prentice-Hall,1974.

Nuttall,A.D.CrimeandPunishment:MurderasPhilosophicExperiment.Edinburgh:ScottishAcademicPressforSussexUniversityPress,1978.

Peace,Richard,ed.FyodorDostoevsky'sCrimeandpunishment:aCasebook.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2006.

Rosenschield,Gary.CrimeandPunishment:TheTechniquesoftheOmniscientAuthor.Lisse:PeterdeRidderPress,1978.

General/bothtextsFlath,CarolApollonio.Dostoevsky’sSecrets:ReadingAgainsttheGrain.Evanston,IL:

NorthwesternUniversityPress,2009.Holquist,Michael.DostoevskyandtheNovel.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,

1986.Leatherbarrow,William.CambridgeCompaniontoDostoevskii.Cambridge:Cambridge

UniversityPress,2002.Martinsen,DeborahA.andOlgaMairorova,eds.DostoevskyinContext.Cambridge:

CambridgeUniversityPress,2016.McReynolds,Susan.RedemptionandtheMerchantGod:Dostoevsky’sEconomyofSalvation

andAntisemitism.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,2008.Scanlan,James.DostoevskytheThinker.Ithaca,NY:CornellUniversityPress,2002.Ward,BruceK.Dostoevsky’sCritiqueoftheWest:TheQuestforEarthlyParadise.Waterloo&

Ontario:WilfridLaurierUniversityPress,1986.Williams,Rowan.Dostoevsky:Language,Faith,andFiction.Waco,TX:BaylorUniversityPress,

2008.

~~~~~~~~~B4:Chkehov:ProseandPlays(Lent)CoretextsProse:Any–butthefollowingaresuggested.Thestoriesmarked*aresuggestedfortheattentionofPartIB,OptionAstudents.

Earlystories:

*“Smert’chinovnika” *“Sobytie” *“Spat’khochetsia”*“Meliuzga” *“Toska”*“Eger’” *“Van’ka”*“Aniuta” *“Vragi”

Novella:‘Step’’

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Laterstories: “Skuchnoeistoriia” “Palatanomer6”“Chernyimonakh” “Student”*“Domsmezzaninom” “Chelovekvfutliare”“Kryzhovnik” “Oliubvi”*“Damassobachkoi” *“Annanashee”

Plays: Chaika(1896)

DiadiaVania(1899)Trisestry(1901)

Vishnev’yisad(1904)

SecondaryReading(General)Chekhov,A.P.LettersontheShortStory,theDrama,andOtherLiteraryTopics.Selectedand

editedbyLouisS.Friedland.London:Vision,1965.[ThiscontainsChekhov’sinterestingcommentariesonhisownwriting]

Debreczeny,Pauletal.Chekhov’sArtofWriting:ACollectionofCriticalEssays.Columbus,Ohio:Slavica,1977.

Gottlieb,Vera,andPaulAllain.TheCambridgeCompaniontoChekhov.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.2000.[Seechapters1-3forbackground]

Karlinsky,Simon.“Chekhov:TheGentleSubversive.”InRenéWellekandNonnaD.Wellek,eds.Chekhov,NewPerspectives.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:Prentice-Hall,1984.31-68.

Loehlin,JamesN.TheCambridgeIntroductiontoChekhov.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2010.

Shestov,Lev.ChekhovandOtherEssays.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress,1966.[SeetranslationsofShestov’swritings,inparticular“AntonChekhov:CreationfromtheVoid”]

SecondaryReadingsonProseChudakov,A.P.Chekhov’sPoetics.Trans.JannieCruiseandDonaldDragt.AnnArbor,MI:

Ardis,1983.Eikhenbaum,Boris.“ChekhovatLarge.”InRobertLouisJackson,ed.Chekhov:ACollectionof

CriticalEssays.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:PrenticeHall,1967.21-31.Finke,Michael.“Chekhov’s‘TheSteppe’:AMetapoeticJourney.”InMetapoesis:TheRussian

TraditionfromPushkintoChekhov.Durham,NCandLondon:DukeUniversityPress,1995.134-66.

Hagan,John.“Chekhov'sFictionandtheIdealof‘Objectivity.’”PMLA81:409-417.Jackson,RobertLouis,ed.ReadingChekhov'sText.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversity

Press,1993.Katyk-Lewis,N.“FragmentasanimpressionistelementintheartofChekhov.”Russian

Literature,January2000,47(1):61-69.Popkin,Cathy.ThePragmaticsofInsignificance:Chekhov,Zoshchenko,Gogol.Stanford,CA:

StanfordUniversityPress,1993.

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Story-specific,astitlesindicate,withtheexceptionofthefirstpiecewhichisquitewidelyapplicable:Baehr,StephenL.“TheLocomotiveandtheGiant:PowerinChekhov’s‘AnnaontheNeck.’”

TheSlavicandEastEuropeanJournal,39(1995):29-37.[JSTOR]Flath,CarolA.“ArtandIdleness:Chekhov’s‘TheHousewithaMezzanine.’”RussianReview,

58(1999):456–66.---------.“TheLimitstotheFlesh:SearchingfortheSoulinChekhov’s‘ABoringStory.’”Slavic

andEastEuropeanJournal,vol.41,no.2(1997):271-86.Freedman,John.“NarrativeTechniqueandtheArtofStory-TellinginAntonChekhov’s‘Little

Trilogy.’”SouthAtlanticReview,vol.53,no.1(Jan.,1988):1-18.[JSTOR]Knapp,Liza.“FearandPityin‘WardSix’:ChekhovianCatharsis.”InR.L.Jackson,ed.Reading

Chekhov'sText.Evanston,IL:NorthwesternUniversityPress,1993.145-56.Asforothertexts,theNORTONCRITICALEDITION(2014)containsausefulsetofcriticalpieces:AntonChekhov'sSelectedStories:TextsoftheStories,ComparisonofTranslations,LifeandLetters,Criticism,editedbyPopkin,Cathy,NewYork,NY:Norton,2014.SecondaryReadingsonDrama:Borny,Geoffrey.InterpretingChekhov.Canberra:ANUEPress,2006.Magarshack,David.ChekhovtheDramatist.NewYork:Hill&Wang,1960.Peace,RichardArthur.Chekhov:AStudyoftheFourMajorPlays.NewHaven,CTandLondon:

YaleUniversityPress,1983.Pitcher,Harvey.“TheChekhovPlay.”InRenéandNonnaD.Wellek,eds.Chekhov,New

Perspectives.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:Prentice-Hall,1984.69-106.Rayfield,Donald.UnderstandingChekhov:ACriticalStudyofChekhov’sProseandDrama.

Bristol:BristolClassicalPress,1999.Senelick,Laurence.TheChekhovTheatre:ACenturyofthePlaysinPerformance.Cambridge:

CambridgeUniversityPress,1997.Wellek,RenéandNonnaD.Wellek.Chekhov,NewPerspectives.EnglewoodCliffs,N.J.:

Prentice-Hall,1984.OnChaika:Kaminer,Jenny.“TheBurdenofSuperfluity:ReconsideringFemaleHeroisminChekhov’sThe

Seagull.”InKatherineBowersandAniKokobobo,eds.RussianWritersandtheFindeSiècle:TheTwilightofRealism.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2015.126-141.

Scott,Virginia.“LifeinArt:AReadingof‘TheSeagull.’”EducationalTheatreJournal,vol.30,no.3(Oct.,1978):357-367.[JSTOR]

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OnVishnev’yisad:Baehr,Stephen.“TheMachineinChekhov'sGarden:ProgressandPastoralintheCherry

Orchard.”SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal43:1(1999):99-121.[JSTOR]Evdokimova,Svetlana.“What'sSoFunnyaboutLosingOne'sEstate,orInfantilismin‘The

CherryOrchard.’”SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal44(Winter2000):623-648.[JSTOR]Jackson,RobertLouis.“‘WhatTimeIsIt?WhereAreWeGoing?’Chekhov’sTheCherry

Orchard:TheStoryofaVerb.”InCloseEncounters.Boston,MA:AcademicStudiesPress,2013.130-152.[JSTOR]

Muza,Anna.“TheMarriageofFigaro,theMarriageofLopakhin:TheHero’sRevolt.”InCarolApollonioandAngelaBrintlinger,eds.Chekhovforthe21stCentury.Bloomington,IN:Slavica,2012.167-79.

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