Unacknowledged legislators : studies in Russian literary history and poetics in honor of Michael Wachtel. Edited by Lazar Fleishman, David M. Bethea, and Ilya Vinitsky / Stanford Slavic studies ; volume 50.

Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch; russisch. - The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel.Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak. The volume is dedicated to the distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel. (Verlagstext) // INHALT (Auszug) : Barry P. Scherr ----- By the Numbers: Notes on Analyzing Russian Verse Rhythm. ----- Caryl Emerson ----- Again on Bakhtin and Poetry, with a Very Long Preface on the Perfidious Cult. ----- Mario Corti ----- Casti, Salieri, and Peter the Great: On Salieri's Heroicomic Opera "Cublai, gran kan de Tartari" ----- Alexander Dolinin ----- What Can We Do with Books from Pushkin's Library?. ----- Olga Peters Hasty ----- Banishing Catherine II: The Bronze Horseman. ----- Andrew Wachtel ----- The Rhetoric of Pretendership in Pushkin and Njegos. ----- Gabriella Safran ----- Aleksandr Pushkin and Dmitrii Grigorovich as Listeners to Peasants. ----- Pamela Davidson ----- The Making of the 'Russian Orthodox Milton: Fedor Glinka's Quest for Epic Form ----- Emily Wang ----- Slaying the Dragon of Symbolism: Nikolai Gumilev's Poem of the Beginning. -- (u.v.a.m.) ISBN 9783631817490