Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition / Lyudmila Parts
  • Chekhov's "The Darling": Femininity Scorned and Desired / Svetlana Evdokimova
  • Bunin's "Gentle Breath" / Lev Vygotsky
  • Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel ("Pan Apolek," "My First Goose")
  • Robert Maguire
  • Zoshchenko's "Electrician," or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism / Aleksander Zholkovsky
  • Yury Olesha's Three Ages of Man: A Close Reading of "Liompa" / Andrew Barratt
  • Nabokov's Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in "Spring in Fialta" (1936-1947) / John Burt Foster, Jr
  • Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment
  • An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak / Fiona Bjorling
  • Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire ("The River Potudan") / Eric Naiman
  • "This Could Have Been Foreseen": Kharms's "The Old Woman" (Starukha) Revisited
  • A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-Gulland
  • Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk" / Leona Toker
  • The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents" / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
  • Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec
  • Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Kunstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse" / Erica Greber
  • Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts
  • "The Lady with the Dogs," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger
  • Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet" / Mark Lipovetsky
  • Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph" / Sven Spieker
  • The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Olga Bogdanova.