Dostoevskij the Humorist: 1846-1849

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
3. Formulaic Style and the Russian Bylina 7
4. Griboedov as a Diplomat 52
5. The Life of Lady Morozova as Literature 74
6. Leskov's Trip Abroad in 1875 88
7. The Comic Element in War and Peace 100
8. Tatiana's Dream in Puskin's Evgenij Onegin 119
9. The Analogical Spread of Russian /o/ and /e/ 125
10. The Polish Napoleonic Cult from Mickiewicz to Żeromski: A Rapid Survey 128
11. Dostoevskij the Humorist: 1846-1849 152
12. Byron's Don Juan and Puskin's Evgenij Onegin: The Question of Parallelism 181
13. The Structure of Njegos's Decasyllabic Verse Compared with the Decasyllabic Verse in Epic Folk Poetry 192
14. Cervantes' "Gypsy Maid" and Puškin's "The Gypsies" 209
15. The Paradoxes of Rej's Biography 215
16. Sienkiewicz versus Kraszewski: Observations on Novel-Writing 238
17. The 1073 Izbornik: The Manuscript and its Sources 252