A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky's oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches. Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the Great, literary theory, and Russian film. The articles are rooted in computational analysis, literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural history, and a host of other methodological and discursive modes. This collection provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the most fascinating figures of Russian letters but also a remarkable picture of the shape of Russian literary scholarship today.

About the Author :
Dennis Ioffe is a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer at Ghent University, Belgium. He received his PhD in Slavic Studies and Cultural Analysis from The University of Amsterdam. His previous teaching and research appointments also include The University of Edinburgh (UK) and Memorial University (Canada). Ioffe has edited a number of academic book-collections and has authored more than eighty scholarly articles. Marcus Levitt is professor emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California and the author, editor, or translator of ten books, as well as numerous scholarly articles. Joe Peschio is associate professor of Russian at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and author of "The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin" (U Wisconsin Press, 2012). He received his PhD in Russian Literature from University of Michigan. Igor Pilshchikov is research associate professor in the Institute for World Culture at Lomonosov Moscow State University, senior research fellow at Tallinn University, and visiting associate professor of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at University of California--Los Angeles. He is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles on Russian poetry and literary theory.

Review :
"The energy and talent of its honoree pay forward in this magisterial work. Across his long career Prof. Zholkovsky has joined with many of the erudite and clever experts represented here to create a new generation of transnational, translingual scholars and writers. Russian history, literature and culture are about more than just Russia, and this encyclopedia ranges across linguistic and cultural landscapes to offer exactly this view. ... Recommended for scholars and students of Russia, of poetic and literary culture, of theory, memoir, autobiography and genre. Grab a copy off the library shelf and dip into it. Construct your own text, reading around in a random order, or follow the path from A to Z. The journey is worth it." --Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Journal "How diverse and inspiring can a researcher's interests be? In the case of Alexander Zholkovsky, who celebrates his eightieth anniversary with thirty-five books and about four hundred articles, not including translations and reprints, interviews and other newspaper materials, the scope must be very wide. ... Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky demonstrates that the celebrant's creativity and academic fertility clearly give life to a large number of research ideas in a wide variety of research domains." -- Natalia Batova, University of Melbourne, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 32 --Natalia Batova "Australian Slavonic and East European Studies"