Essays in English and Russian presented at the 1987 symposium commemorating the 150th anniversary of Pushkin's death.

Treats the historical morphology of the verbal system of Macedonian, a Slavic language spoken in one-time Yugoslavia. Also considers the importance of the analysis offered in this study for the notion of paradigm in morphological analysis.

Examines the methods employed by Tolstoy to influence the reader, including the relationship he establishes with the reader and the way he uses images to help the reader join the world of the characters.

This volume brings together for comparison three Russian narrative poems by authors who lived in different periods of modern Russian history, covering among their lifespans the whole of the 19th century and two decades of the 20th century. Numerous points of contact are seen to emerge, ranging from historical matters to a concurrence of ideas iterating the tragic nature of human life and destiny.

This study takes as its premise that the novel, which is fascinating for both what it reveals and what it conceals, carries within itself a coherence of meaning. It is widely acknowledged that religious categories of understanding are necessary for a proper interpretation of the novel, but it is common to conclude that Mikhail Bulgakov's outlook is heterodox. This study places him within the theological tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy.