CONTENTS
POETICS. READING AND INTERPRETING
Tatiana Venediktova. Walt Whitman: Gallerist in New York
Ekaterina Belavina. On the Wreckage of the Bastille of Rhymes
Ira Nadel. The American Sentence
Yuri Stulov. Contemporary African American Historical Novel
Elena Ogneva. J.M. Ferreira de Castro and the Green Hell of Amazonia: On the Origins of the Literary Tradition
OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD
Yulia Kleiman. Island of Totalitarinism: Macbeth by Orson Welles
Maxim Gudkov. Red Rust vs Yellow Rust: Metamorphoses of the Soviet Play on Broadway
THE WRITER IN LITERARY HISTORY
Olga Panova, Aleksandra Fisenko. Erskine Caldwell in Wartime Moscow, May – September 1941
Olga Panova, Aleksandra Fisenko. Erskine Caldwell and the Soviet Union: Correspondence of 1935–1943
Olga Shcherbinina. Howard Fast and Soviet Writers. Article 1. “A Friendly Hand Reaching Out Across the Ocean”: 1949–1955
LITERATURE IN CONTEXT
Denis Zakharov. The Great Pasha, Buried Alive: The Archetypes of the Characters in Truman Capote’s Story “A Tree of Night”
Anna Arustamova. David Burliuk in Color and Rhyme Magazine. Article 2. Across Epochs and Cultures: A Journey to France, 1949
Yulia Skalnaya. “Interpreter of Life” and “Maker of Universes”: Bernard Shaw and Albert Einstein
MEMORABLE DATE
Verbal Art & TD: Tatiana Venediktova Anniversary
ACADEMIC LIFE. NEWS. EVENTS. BOOK REVIEWS
Andrey Kofman. Greetings from Havana: MAPRYAL Forum in Cuba
Annus Mirabilis: 1922 in the History of Modernism
Irina Morozova, Victoria Zhuravleva. VIII Zverev International Conference at RSUH: “America’s Hinterland in Literature, Politics, and Culture”
IN MEMORIAM
Yuri Girin. Marco Aurelio Larios. In Memory of a Friend, Writer, Scholar