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

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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Contents

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

Contents

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

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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ULBANDUS 9 | 2005/6 The '60s

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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ULBANDUS 8 | 2004 The Fruits of Evil: Baudelaire, Decadence, and Russia

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

Photography

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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

Contents

Staff

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ULBANDUS 6 | 2002 160 Years of Dead Souls

Contents

Staff

Illustrations

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