Department of Slavic Languages

Research

 

Olga Meerson. "Smerdiakov: chetvertyj brat ili kozel otpushcheniia ex machina?/ (Smerdiakov: the Fourth Brother or a Scapegoat ex machina?)." Brat’ia Karamazovy, Novejshie issledovaniia / The New Critical Anthology on The Brothers Karamazov. Ed. Tatiana Kasatkina, Karen Stepanian, the IMLI Commeittee on Dostoevsky. Moscow: The Moscow Institute of World Literature, the Dostoevsky Committee, 2007.

Olga Meerson. "Zhenikhi Dostoevskogo v ‘Zashchite Luzhina’ Nabokova (Dostoevsky’s Bridegrooms in Nabokov’s Defense)." Dostoevskij I XX-j vek / Dostoevsky and the 20th Century. Ed. Tatiana Kasatkina, Karen Stepanian. Moscow: The Dostoevsky Committee, IMLI (Institute of World Literature), 2007.
Olga Meerson . "Psalm 50/51: vs. 8/6: and Psalm Inscriptions: The Hebrew Mind-Set versus The Greek One." The Moscow Conference on Commentary: History and Theory, Classical and Modern. Ed. Julia Ivanova. Moscow: Russian State University of the Humanities and Moscow H. School of Economics Conf. on Commentary, 2007.
Morris, Marcia A.. "Gde zhe ty brate? Povestvovanie na granitse i vosstanovlenie sviaznosti v Brat’iakh Karamazovykh." Brat’ia Karamazovy: Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia. Ed. Kasatkina, T. : Nauka, 2006.
Olga Meerson. "Velimir Xlebnikov’s ‘Moskva, ty kto?’ and Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Identical Questions, with No Answers." Andrei Platonov’s Intertexts. Ed. Elena Kolesnikova. St. Petersburg: The Pushkinskij Dom Institute of Literature, 2005.
Olga Meerson. "Tropes in Orthodox Liturgical Poetics and Their Perception by the Russian Ear." AESTHETICS AS A RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY. Ed. William van den Bercken, Jonathan Sutton. Utrecht, Holland: Leuven ; Paris ; Dudley, Mass. : Peeters, 2005.
Olga Meerson. "How Dostoevsky Inscribes ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ In a Killer’s Heart : The Decalogue Taboo Internalized; The It Of ‘It’." Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall, Pa. : Broomall, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers , 2004.
Olga Meerson, Irina Mikaelian. "Why Hermann Came to the Funeral of the Countess: the Verb Imet’ and Its Two Connotations in Russian." Izvestiia OLIa (The Journal of the Academy of Sciences Division of Language and Literature) Dec..2003 (2003).
Trans. Valentina Brougher. Aleksandr Kondratiev, On the Banks of the Yaryn. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003.
"Maria Semenovna Zhukova." Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 277: Russian Literature in the Age of Realism: Gale: Detroit, 2003: 409-415..
Andrey Platonov (the author), Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson (translators), ed. Soul. London, UK: The Harvill Press, 2003.
Valentina Brougher. "Viktor Nikolaevich Kuraev, Petr Markovich Aleshkovsky." The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Russian Writers Since 1980. Vol. 285 . Ed. Marina Balina, Mark Lipovetsky. Columbia, S.Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003.
Valentina Brougher. "Vsevolod Viacheslavovich Ivanov." Russian Writers Between the World Wars. Ed. Christine Rydel. Columbia, S.Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2003.
Svetlana Grenier. ""Tolstoy’s Dialogue with Herzen in Anna Karenina.” ." Russian Literature 51.4 (2002): 371-401.
Svetlana Grenier. Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Personalism, Feminism, and Polyphony. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Valentina Brougher. "Werewolves and Vampires, Historical Questions and Symbolic Answers in Petr Aleshkovskii’s Vladimir Chigrintsev." Slavic and East European Journal 45.3 (2001): 491-505.
Olga Meerson. "Andrei Platonov’s Re-familiarization." Essays in Poetics. The Journal of the British Neo-Formalist Circle. 26.A2001 (2001): 21-37.
Olga Meerson. "Khristos ili Kniaz’-Khristos? Svidetel’stvo generala Ivolgina. (Christ or Prince-Christ? General Ivolgin’s Testimony)." Idiot: Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia. /The Idiot: Contemporary Research. Ed. Ed. Karen Stepanian. Moscow: The IMLI Committee on Dostoevsky, 2001.
Valentina Brougher. "A New Voice in Russian Prose: Zufar Gareev." Russian Literature 48.2 (2000): 117-130.
Marcia Morris. The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Morris, Marcia A.. "Dialogue Monologized: The Rhetoric of Salvation in the ’Povest’ o besnovatoj zhene Solomonii’." Zeitschrift fuer Slawistik 44 (1999): 301-315.
Valentina Brougher. "The Demonic in the Stories of G. Petrov, A. Kurchatkin and Oleg Ermakov." Canadian Slavonic Papers 41.2 (1999): 143-156.
Olga Meerson. "Rhymes, Quasi-Rhymes, and Ghosts of Rhymes in Pushkin’s ’Mozart and Salieri’." Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri (The Humanities in Siberia) 4.1999 (1999).
Olga Meerson. "Bibleiskie interteksty u Dostoevskogo. Koshchunstvo ili apofaticheskoe blagochestie? (Biblical Subtexts in Dostoevsky: Blasphemy or Apophatic Piety?)." Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura 12.1999 (1999): 39-51.
Olga Meerson. "The Power of Revelations: Unsealing Subtexts in Nikolai Leskov’s ’The Sealed Angel.’." Die Wirklichkeit der Kunst und das Abenteuer der Interpretation: Festschrift for Horst Jürgen Gerigk. Ed. Klaus Manger. Heidelberg : Universitaetsverlag, Klaus Manger, 1999.
Tomas Venclova (Olga Meerson). " Sobesedniki na piru ." Slavic and East European Journal 423.1999 (1999).
Marcia Morris, ed. Creativity as a Major Driving Force in the Eighteenth-Century Russian ’Translation’ of ’Till Eulenspiegel’. 1998. : .
Valentina Brougher. "Demythologising Socialist Realism: Vladimir Sorokin’s Marina’s Thirtieth Love." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 12.1 (1998): 97-113.
Trans. Valentina Brougher and Frank J. Miller. Vs. Ivanov, Fertility and Other Stories. Columbia University: Northwestern University Press, 1998.
Olga Meerson. Dostoevsky’s Taboos. Dresden, Germany: Dresden University Press/ The Harriman Institute Series, Columbia U, 1998.
Valentina Brougher. "The Occult in Russian Literature of the 1990s." The Russian Review 56.1 (1997).
Olga Meerson. A Free Thing: the Poetics of Familiarization in Andrei Platonov’s Work, in Russian. Oakland, CA, re-published in Novosibirsk, Russia: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1997. Republished by Novosibirsk: Nauka in 2000, 1997.
Valentina Brougher. "The Occult in the Prose of Vsevolod Ivanov." The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ed. Bernice Glazer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Andrei Arkhipov (Olga Meerson). "On the Other Side of the Sambation: Studies in Russo-Hebrew Cultural and Linguistic Contacts in 10th-17th CC ." Slavic and East European Journal 41.1997 (1997): 148-150.
Morris, Marcia A.. "Feofan Prokopovich’s ’Vladimir’ as a Vehicle for the Comic View of History in Early East Slavonic Drama." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 10 (1996): 1-15.
Valentina Brougher. "Vsevolod Ivanov’s Satirical Novel Y and the Rooster Metaphor." Slavic Review 53.1 (1994): 16-172.
Olga Meerson. "Literary Genesis of a Justification for Killing: From Posterity to Forefathers." Tolstoy Studies Journal VII.1994 (1994).
Robin Feuer Miller (Olga Meerson). " The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel ." Slavic and East-European Journal 38.1994 (1994): 268-270.
Charles Homer Giblin, S.J., Olga Meerson, Translator into Russian. Apokalipsis: Otkrytaia kniga prorochestva (The Open Book of Revelation). Paris-Moscow: Symbol (Alexander Mossine, Ed.), 1994.
Olga Meerson. "AFlann O’Brien=s The Third Policeman: An Apophatic Cartography of Hell _." The First Hour, Journal of Patristic Society 5.1994 (1994): 3-11.
Valentina Brougher. "Myth in Vs.Ivanov’s Kreml." Canadian Slavonic Papers 35.3,4 (1993): 221-234.
Marcia Morris. Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Morris, Marcia A.. "Russian Variations on the Picaresque: The Narrative Short Form." Canadian Slavonic Papers 34 (1992): 57-78.
Morris, Marcia A.. "The Tale of Savva Grudcyn and the Poetics of Transition." Slavic and East European Journal 35 (1992): 202-216.
Olga Meerson. "Old Testament Lamentation in the Underground Man’s Monologue: A Refutation of the Existentialist Reading of Notes from the Underground." Slavic and East European Journal 36.3 (1992): 317-322.
Morris, Marcia A.. "Russian into English Translation: Do Dictionaries Help?"`." Jerome Quarterly 3 (1988).
Morris, Marcia A.. "Sensuality and Music: Tolstoyan Echoes in Tristan." Germano-Slavica 5-6 (1987): 211-222.
Morris, Marcia A.. "The Role of Literature in a Pre-College Foreign Language Curriculum." Russian Language Journal 36 (1982).

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