Tjutchev: Euphony and Beyond

Acknowledgments

      Acknowledgments It  is  with  gratitude  and  pleasure  that  I  take  this  opportunity  to  thank  those   colleagues   and   friends   who   have   supported   this   work   in   all   its   manifold   stages.  The  late  Anna  Lisa  Crone,  Howard  I.  Aronson,  Barry  P.  Scherr,  James   Bailey,  David  Powelstock,  Alice  Zimring,  David  Waldman,  Alexander  Burry,   and  Jerry  Katsell  have  provided  me  with  invaluable  comments  on  the  devel-­‐‑ oping  manuscript  of  this  book  and  helped  me  with  its  editing;  Jerry  Katsell   has  enhanced  it  with  translations  of  thirty-­‐‑five  of  Tjutchev’s  poems.  Among   those   who   intellectually   stimulated   this   research   are   the   late   Mikhail   Gas-­‐‑ parov,  Tatjana  Dinesman,  Roman  Lejbov,  Omry  Ronen,  Aleksandr  Ospovat,   Paul  Friedrich,  Lauren  Leighton,  and  Gerald  Janecek.  I  will  always  be  grateful   to  my  mentors  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  Anna  Lisa  Crone  and  Howard   Aronson   who   encouraged   my   Ph.D.   thesis   (2000)   to   move   in   an   interdisci-­‐‑ plinary  direction,  and  prior  to  them,  to  my  professors  at  Moscow  Conserva-­‐‑ tory,  Vjacheslav  Medushevskij  who  advised  me  to  examine  Tjutchev’s  poetry   as  a  meditative  model  for  contemporary  music,  and  Ljudmila  Nikitina,  who   directed   my   first   Ph.D.   thesis   (1993).   Some   parts   of   that   first,   musicological   thesis  as  well  as  a  substantial  portion  of  my  subsequent  literary  dissertation   (written  in  2000)  have  been  reworked,  developed,  and  incorporated  into  the   present   study.   Last   but   not   least,   I   would   like   to   thank   George   Fowler   and   Vicki  Polansky  at  Slavica  for  their  encouragement,  patience,  and  editorial  aid.   This   book   would   not   have   been   written   without   the   love   and   uncondi-­‐‑ tional  support  of  my  parents,  Sophia  M.  Olinova  and  Abram  L.  Rozental,  my   husband,  Victor  A.  Ginzburg,  and  son,  Mikhail  G.  Shirokov.  I  dedicate  this   study  to  them.       ...