CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. THE ORIGINS OF ALËŠA KARAMAZOV 7
4. THE OČERK: SUGGESTIONS TOWARD A REDEFINITION 29
5. MAJAKOVSKIJ'S POEM ČELOVEK: THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION 43
6. THE ARTIST TURNED PROPHET: LEO TOLSTOJ AFTER 1880 61
7. ΡΝΦΜΑ B ΠΟ϶ЗИИ CЛABЯНKСИX HAPOДOB HECKOЛbKO ЗAMETOK 87
8. UWAGI O ROLI DIALEKTYZMÓW W LITERATURZE PIÇKNEJ 115
9. K CPAHEHИЮ TEMATИKИ И KOMПΟЗИЦИΟΗΗΟЙ CTPYKPЪІ PYCCKOЙ И ЧΕШCKOЙ HAPOДHOЙ БΑЛЛΑДЫ 133
10. DICKENS AND GOGOL'S "ŠINEL"' 165
11. THE LIMITS OF SECULAR BIOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL SLAVIC LITERATURE, PARTICULARLY OLD RUSSIAN 181
12. SURREALISTS VERSUS MODERNISTS IN SERBIAN LITERATURE 201
13. PHILOSOPHY AND ARTISTIC DEVICES IN THE HISTORICAL FICTION OF L. N. TOLSTOJ AND M. A. ALDANOV 239
14. INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY IN FOUR ČEXOY STORIES 261
15. ČEXOV'S "V OVRAGE": SIX ANTIPODES 285
16. OREST SOMOV AND THE ILLUSION OF REALITY 307
17. SKAMANDRYCI A POEZJA ROSYJSKA POCZĄTKU XX WIEKU 333
18. ON THE QUESTION OF THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF GAVRIILIADA AND BORIS GODUNOV 355
19. SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE STYLE OF BUNIN'S EARLY PROSE 369
20. Backmatter 386