A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature

Contributors

Contributors Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Invisible Land: A Study ofthe Artistic Imagination of Iurii Olesha (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970) and Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" Emigration (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), as well as ofa number ofarticles on Ilya Zdanevich and on the interaction of literature and architecture. Jane T. Costlow is Associate Professor of Russian at Bates College. She is the author of Worlds Within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990) and co-editor, with Stephanie Sandler and Judith Vowles, of Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993). Thea Margaret Durfee is a doctoral student in Russian Studies at the University of Southern California. She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled "Between Salon and Gallery: Nadezhda Evseevna Dobychina and the Dobychina Art Bureau, 1900-1920." Caryl Emerson is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She has translated and commented upon the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, and has written on nineteenthcentury Russian literature, Musorgsky and Russian music, and most recently on Bakhtin's reception, or "reclamation," in Russia as he approaches his centennial year. Helena Goscilo teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published collections of translations, including Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989; New York: Dell, 1991) and Lives in Transit: A Collection of Recent Russian Women's Writings (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1994). Most recently she has edited Skirted Issues: The Discreteness and Indiscretions of Russian Women's Prose ix (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1992); Fruits of Her plume: Essays on Contemporary Women's Culture (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1993); and From Bathhouse to Ballroom: Russian Women's Culture (with Beth Holmgren; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995). She is currently completing a monograph on Tatiana Tolstaia and a volume ofessays on the construction of womanhood in Soviet and post-perestroika Russia (to be published by the University of Michigan Press). Sona Stephan Hoisington is Associate Professor of Russian at the University ofIllinois at Chicago. She has published articles on nineteenth- and twentieth -century Russian literature and is editor and translator of the collection Russian Views ofPushkin's "Eugene Onegin" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988). Amy Mandelker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is author ofFraming Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993) and articles on Russian and European literature and literary theory. She is currently working on a book, Icons ofTheory and Theories oflconicity in Russian and Western Aesthetics. Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981; reprint, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1987), Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987), Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation ofa Prosaics (co-authored with Caryl Emerson; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990), and, most recently, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). He is at present working on a study of Russian writers and the intelligentsia , from which the essay in the present volume is drawn. Harriet Murav is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University ofCalifornia at Davis. She is the author ofHoly Foolishness: Dostoevsky'S Novels and the Poetics ofCultural Critique (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992). Gary Rosenshield is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Crime and Punishment : The Techniques of the Omniscient Author (Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press, 1978) and numerous essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian prose. He is currently writing monographs on the theme of madness in the works of Alexander Pushkin and on Dostoevsky and the law. x ...