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ULBANDUS 14 | 2012
Andrei Platonov
Style, Context, Meaning |
Contents
Acknowledgments ... iii
Note on Transliteration ... iv
Editor’s Introduction ... v
KATHARINE HOLT
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PART ONE: INTERPRETATIONS
Platonov’s Chevengur Between Defamiliarization and Compassion ... 3
AAGE HANSEN-LÖVE
The “Common Proletarian House,” or “Essessar, Our Mother” ... 37NATALIA DUZHINA
Kotlovan: Translation Failures As Interpretation Clues ... 48
OLGA MEERSON
A Groundless Foundation Pit ... 61
TORA LANE
Ekphrastic Metaphysics of Dzhan ... 76
NARIMAN SKAKOV
Platonov’s Last Word: The Magic Ring Reconsidered ... 93
ROBERT CHANDLER
Scenes from “Bezruchka” 105
Original illustrations by BELA SHAYEVICH
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PART TWO: CONTEXTS
Platonov and Reshetnikov ... 111
BORIS GASPAROV
The Development of Platonov’s Narrative Perspective
in the Context of the 1920s ... 130
ROBERT HODEL
Platonov and His Contemporaries: Dem’ian Bednyi ... 156
NATALIA KORNIENKO
Platonov and Stalin: Dialogues in Double Dutch ... 202
EVGENY DOBRENKO
Platonov, Incommensurability, and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee ... 216
JONATHAN BROOKS PLATT
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PART THREE: SYNTHESES
“A Mixture of Living Creatures”: Man and Animal in the
Works of Andrei Platonov ... 251
HANS GÜNTHER
Power and the Other in the Dramatic Works of Andrei Platonov ... 273
NATALIA POLTAVTSEVA
Platonov’s Blindness ... 289
THOMAS SEIFRID
Platonov and the Open Text ... 302
PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK
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ULBANDUS 13 | 2010
Violence
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Contents
Editor's Introduction ... i
ANI KOKOBOBO
Voyeurism and Violence, With Constant Reference to Dostoevsky
An Essay in Misanthropology ... 1
ALICIA CHUDO*
Playground-Graveyard:
Violence, the Body and Borderline Urban Space in Lilja 4-Ever ... 29
BRINTON TENCH COXE
Horrors All Our Own:
Recreating and Reenacting
Myths of St. Petersburg's Past ... 41
SASHA de VOGEL
Violence in Bai Ganyo:
From Balkan to Universal ... 52
VICTOR FRIEDMAN
Aleksandr Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter:
A Poetics of Violence ... 64
ALEXANDER GROCE
The "Curse" of Eastern Blood in Ismail Kadare's Elegy for Kosovo ... 79
ANI KOKOBOBO
Georgian Popular Music and the Cliché of the Nation at War ... 94
LAUREN NINOSHVILI
Dishonor by Flogging and Restoration by Dancing:
Leskov's Response to Dostoevsky ... 109
IRINA REYFMAN
Madeness (Сделаность) ... 126
POLINA BARSKOVA
The Fourtieth Day ... 138
ANNA FRAJLICH
feminine nouns that end in a consonant:
conversations with Croatian men ... 139
JUDITH PINTAR
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*Alicia Chudo is a pseudonym of Gary Saul Morson.
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ULBANDUS 12 | 2009/10
Pushkin
Maksim Hanukai, editor
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Contents
Editor's Introduction
Maksim Hanukai • i
Part One: Life and Art
The Gavriliada as Gossip
Katharine Holt • 1
Linguistic Comedy in Eugene Onegin
J. Douglas Clayton • 21
Pushkin’s Year of Frustration, or How The Golden Cockerel is Made
Boris Gasparov • 41
The Disenchantment of Poetry: Pushkin’s Egyptian Nights
Maksim Hanukai • 63
Life-Writing in the 1830s: Viazemsky’s Fon-Vizin and Pushkin’s “Table Talk”
Andrew Kahn • 83
Part Two: Legacy
Sexuality in The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
and the Tradition of Russian Anti-Utopianism
Alexei Lalo • 105
Learning Generational Wisdom from Pushkin:
Sophia Parnok’s “Trudno, trudno, brat…”
Vladimir Golstein • 119
Rereading Nabokov’s Commentaries to Eugene Onegin
Francisco Picon • 140
Erecting Monuments, Real and Imagined: Brodsky’s Monuments
to Pushkin Within the Context of Soviet Culture
Rebecca Pyatkevich • 161
Untitled Rant #2
Q • 183
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ULBANDUS 11 | 2008
High/low
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Contents
Editor's Introduction
Thomas Anessi • i
From Aga Khan to Dim Sum:
New Russia's Asian Appetite
Thomas J. Garza • 1
Literacy and Literary Mastery in Early Soviet Russia:
The Case of Yuri Olesha's Envy
Maria Kisel • 23
From Freedom Fortress to Jihadist Camp:
The Interplay of High and Low Culture in Representing the Caucasus
John Hope • 46
Rethinking the High Style:
The Uses of Church Slavonicisms in the Works of Contemporary Russian Poets
Maria Khotimsky • 74
Three-Day Weekend
Vitaly Komar • 99
Jane Austen and Russian Chat
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy • 115
Fourth Partition
Thomas Starky • 126
"I Want": Women in Post-Soviet Comics
José Alaniz • 142
From Foul Utopia to Critical Mess:
The End of Modernity in Russian and American Art
Jonathan Brooks Platt • 180
The Songs of Edward Stachura: An Introduction
An essay by Graham Crawford with translations by
Graham Crawford and J. Podlaszewski • 222
Born in the USSR:
Searching High and Low for Post-Soviet Identity
Irina Six • 232
The Robert A. Maguire Prize • 252
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ULBANDUS 10 | 2006/7
My Nabokov
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Contents
Editor's Introduction
Marijeta Bozovic • i
Who is 'My Nabokov'?
Brian Boyd • 1
Vladimir Nabokov: Two Poems
translated by John C. Wright • 4
Nabokov vs. Casanova: An Affair of Honor
Valentina Izmirlieva • 8
Reading Chernyshevskii in Tehran: Nabokov and Nafisi
Eric Naiman • 25
Little Girl Lost: A Hebrew Translation of Lolita and Nabokov's Angry Ghost
Ari Lieberman • 41
Self-Parasitism, Shared Roots, and Disembodied Meters within Nabokov's Eugene Onegin Project
John C. Wright • 63
Nabokov and Benjamin: A Late Modernist Response to History
Will Norman • 79
Plaster, Marble, Canon: The Vindication of Nabokov in Post-Soviet Russia
Yuri Leving • 101
How Did They Ever Make a Dance Work of Lolita? Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Motion
Laura Regensdorf • 123
Insert: Photos
Svetlana Boym • 146
Struggle for the Narrative: Nabokov and Kubrick's Collaboration on the Lolita Screenplay
Julia Trubikhina • 149
The Cybernetics of Nabokov's "Beneficence": An Anachronism
Ben Peters • 173
Literary Bilingualism and Code-Switching in Nabokov's Ada
Rita Safariants • 191
Talking Back to Nabokov: A Commentary on a Commentary
Rebecca Stanton • 212
Untitled
Q • 222
Staff
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Editor-in-Chief:
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Marijeta Bozovic
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Associate Editors:
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John (Cal) Wright, Maksim Hanukai
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Technical Editor:
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Maksim Hanukai
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Assistant Editors:
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Brinton Tench Coxe, Anna Dvigubski, Andrew Glikin-Gusinsky,
Bella Grigoryan, Francisco (Paco) Picon, Rebecca Pyatkevich, Steven Shaklan, Erica Siegel
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Subscriptions:
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Natalia Ermolaev, Erica Siegel
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Advisory Board:
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Jared Ingersoll, Mara Kashper, Ron Meyer, and Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
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Administrative Assistance:
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Evelyn Garcia, Elsie Martinez, Alla Rachkov
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Cover Art:
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Svetlana Boym (front), Francisco (Paco) Picon (back)
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Web site:
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Rebecca Stanton
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ULBANDUS 9 | 2005/6
The '60s
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Contents
Announcement: The Maguire Prize • i
Editor's Introduction
Rebecca Pyatkevich • 1
Aleksey Rzhevsky, Russian Mannerist
Irina Reyfman • 3
The Russian Literary Scene: 1860s and 1980s
Robert Belknap • 19
An Imprint of the Times: Marlen Khutsiev's July Rain and the End of the Thaw
B. Tench Coxe • 30
Anna Akhmatova in Poems by Brodsky and Naiman
Margo Shohl Rosen • 48
Mikhail Krasilnikov: A Memoir
Lev Loseff (trans. Rebecca Pyatkevich) • 69
Bad Singing: Avtorskaia Pesnia and the Aesthetics of Metacommunication
Rachel Platonov • 87
Staff
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Rebecca Pyatkevich
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John (Cal) Wright
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Assistant Editors:
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Thomas Anessi, Jeff Barreith, Marijeta Bozovic, Anna Dvigubski, Rory Finnin, Bella Grigoryan, Thomas Kitson, Ani Kokobobo, Jonathan Platt, Margo Rosen, Steven Shaklan, Emma Lieber
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Subscriptions:
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Natalia Ermolaev, Erica Siegel
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Advisory Board:
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Jared Ingersoll, Mara Kashper, Ron Meyer, and Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
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Administrative Assistance:
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Evelyn Garcia, Elsie Martinez, Alla Rachkov
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Stephane Charitos, Piero di Porzio
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Rebecca Stanton
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ULBANDUS 8 | 2004
The Fruits of Evil:
Baudelaire, Decadence, and Russia
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Contents
From the Editor
Margo Shohl Rosen • 2
The First Russian Flowers of Evil
Adrian Wanner • 4
The Salon Files
The Informalists • 18
Valery Briusov and the Construction of Urban Forms
B. Tench Coxe • 27
A New Russian Rafflesia from Baudelaire’s Garden:
Yuri Mamleev’s Literary Origins and the Poetics of the Ugly
Inna Tigountsova • 47
From the Hothouse to the Harem: Rozanov and Decadence
Douglas Greenfield • 67
The Decadent Anna Akhmatova?: a virtual tea
Margo Rosen, Boris Gasparov, Kirsten Lodge, Colleen McQuillen, Jon Platt, Anatoly Naiman, Marijeta Bozovic, Doug Greenfield, and Tench Coxe • 91
The Dionysian Roots of Symbolist Masquerade Balls
in Petersburg and Poem without a Hero
Colleen McQuillen • 106
“He said that for a woman to be a poet is nonsense”:
Anna Akhmatova in Quest of a Lyrical Voice
Boris Gasparov • 119
The Other Russian Literature:
Viktor Erofeev’s Russian Flowers of Evil
Marijeta Bozovic • 138
Victim and Scourge: Baudelairean Echoes in Gumilev
Timothy Williams • 144
Staff
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Margo Shohl Rosen |
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Marijeta Bozovic, Natalia Ermolaev |
| Assistant Editors: |
Jeffrey Barreith, Tench Coxe, Douglas Greenfield,
Bella Grigoryan, Thomas Kitson, Jon Kyst, Kirsten Lodge, Colleen
McQuillen, Emily Newman, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Rebecca Plimpton,
Rebecca Pyatkevich, Erica Siegel, Sanna Turoma, Timothy Williams |
| Art & Design Editor: |
Jonathan Platt |
| Subscriptions: |
Natalia Ermolaev, Erica Siegel |
| Advisory Board: |
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
Rebecca Stanton |
| Administrative Assistance: |
Evelyn Garcia, Elsie Martinez |
| Web site: |
Rebecca Stanton |
Photography
Photography for “The Salon Files”
by Sonje Berg, Tench Coxe, Tony de Leon, and Emily Newman.
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ULBANDUS 7 | 2003
Empire, Union, Center, Satellite:
The place of post-colonial theory in Slavic/ Central and Eastern European/ (Post-)Soviet Studies
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Contents
Editor's Introduction .......................................................
Jonathan Brooks Platt |
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Empire, Union, Center, Satellite: A Questionnaire.....................................................................
Stephen Collier, Alex Cooley, Bruce Grant, Harriet Murav,
Marc Nichanian, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Alexander
Etkind
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Russia and the Problem of Internal Colonization
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Jon Kyst
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Postcolonialism, Russia and Ukraine ..................................
Vitaly Chernetsky
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Imperial Realism: Belinsky and the Wretched
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Earth .....................................................................................
Vadim Shkolnikov
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Songs of Africa: The Native Voice in Four
Poems by Nikolai Gumilev ....................................................................
Gwen Walker
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Sonic Hierarchies and the Clash of Discourses
in Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's First Teacher
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B. Tench Coxe
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Exile and the Death of Languages in Anton
Chekhov's Three Sisters .........................................................................
Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
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Joseph Brodsky and Orientalism: A Russian
Moor in Venice? .................................................................................
Sanna Turoma
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The Polish Poet: Traveler, Exile, Expatriate, World
Citizen....................................................................................
David A. Goldfarb
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Polish Iraq ............................................................................
Tom Anessi
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Who's Coming to the Party? ...............................................
Kara Lynch
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A Letter to the Editor .........................................................
Q | 189 |
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Karin Beck, Sonje Berg, Rhupa Bhattacharya,
DavidCooper, Jefferson Gatrall, Tom Kitson, Jon Kyst, Kirsten
Lodge, Rebecca Pyatkevich, Margo Rosen, Rebecca Stanton, Sanna
Turoma, Timothy Williams
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Natasha Ermolaev, Erica Siegel
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Cover Design:
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Aneta Wlodyka
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Web Site Design:
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Rebecca Stanton
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Advisory Board
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Robert A. Maguire, Ron Meyer, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, and Jared Ingersoll
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ULBANDUS 6 | 2002
160 Years of Dead Souls
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Contents
Editor's Introduction .......................................................
Tench Coxe
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Two Dead Souls: A Dialogue .........................................
Abakum Fyrov and Maksim Teliatnikov
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Remembering Ulbandus Review .....................................
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
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Translating Dead Souls ...................................................
Robert A. Maguire
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Frame and Focus: Dead Souls in Perspective
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Jonathan Brooks Platt
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Gogol's Bird Troika and the Horses of San
Marco ......
Douglas Greenfield
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The Semiotics of Gogol's Dead Souls ..........................
Kirsten Lodge
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Exegi Testamentum: Gogol's Last Testament
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Ilya Vinitsky
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Where's Gogol's Nose? ...................................................
Jefkhonte G-v
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New Historicism, Russian Style ......................................
Jon Kyst
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Staff
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Editor-in-Chief:
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Tench Coxe |
| Art & Design Editor: |
Jonathan Brooks Platt |
| Assistant Editors: |
Karin Beck, Sonje Berg, Rhupa Bhattacharya,
DavidCooper, Jefferson Gatrall, Tom Kitson, Jon Kyst, Kirsten
Lodge, Rebecca Pyatkevich, Margo Rosen, Rebecca Stanton, Sanna
Turoma, Timothy Williams |
| Subscriptions & Accounts: |
Natasha Ermolaev, Erica Siegel |
| Cover Design: |
Aneta Wlodyka |
| Web Site Design: |
Rebecca Stanton |
| Advisory Board: |
Robert A. Maguire, Ron Meyer,
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
and Jared Ingersoll |
Illustrations
| Cover image: |
The Nose, by Alberto Giacometti |
| Back inside cover image: |
Herd of Sheep with Black Ram,
by Jacques Hnizdovsky |
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