Reconstructing the Canon : Russian Writing in the 1980s (Paperback)

1. Iurii Lotman in the 1980s: the Code and Its Relation to Literary Biography David Bethea 2. Conform Not to This Age: an Interview with Ol’ga Sedakova Valentina Polukhina 3. Elena Shvarts and the Distances of Self-Disclosure Stephanie Sandler 4. An Odd Man Out: the Poetics of Mikhail Aizenberg Zinovy Zinik 5. Zinovy Zinik’s Gothic Suburbia Robert Porter 6. Back to the Future: Andrei Siniavskii and Kapitanskaia dochka Jane Grayson 7. System and Structure in the Work of Aleksandr Zinov’ev Michael Kirkwood 8. The Dissolution of Reality in Sasha Sokolov’s Mezhdu sobakoi I volkom Hanna Kolb 9. Russian Village Prose in Paraliterary Space Kathleen Parthe 10. Russian Literature and Imperialism: the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Periods Ewa Thompson 11. Blues at Forty: the Plays of Viktor Slavkin Robert Russell 12. Kavalerovs and Coffins: Urban Prose of the Eighties Sally Dalton-Brown 13. Vladimir Sorokin and the Norm David Gillespie