TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999 under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK We are pleased to announce this conference. About thirty papers will be delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to celebrate the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia's national - and greatest - writer. These papers will offer new readings of most of Pushkin's key works. At the same time they will seek to locate him both within the later traditions of Russian literature, by means of a series of comparative discussions, and the broader European context, with examinations of his influence on, or parallels with non-Russian writers. In keeping with the traditons of the Neo-Formalist Circle, which celebrates its own more modest, thirtieth anniversary in 2000, all the papers will be informed with the latest thinking and approaches in literary theory and practice. The following are the proposed papers, all confirmed at the present time. For further information contact Joe Andrew or Robert Reid at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Further details of the precise programme, booking forms etc will be available in June. 1. Robin Aizlewood (SSEES): The 'Stone Guest' and the 'Alter Ego': Doubling and Redoubling Germann in The Queen of Spades 2. Joe Andrew (Keele): ‘[She] was brought up on French novels and, consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin 3. David Baguley (Durham): Pushkin and Merimee: the French Connection 4. David Bethea (Wisconsin): ‘A Higher Audacity': How to Read Pushkin's Dialogue with Shakespeare in The Stone Guest 5. Sander Brouwer (Groningen): Love in the Russian World: Erotic and Social Unproductivity from Pushkin to Turgenev 6. Diana L. Burgin (Massachusetts): Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins 7. Leon Burnett (Essex): Sovereign Rapture: The Enigma of Pushkin's Cleopatra 8. J. Douglas Clayton (Ottawa): Word Order in Russian Poetry: Evgenii Onegin between Poetry and Prose 9. Neil Cornwell (Bristol): Pushkin and Henry James 10. Jusin Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin): ‘Pechal' moia svetla': The Pushkin Contexts of Georgy Ivanov's Raspad atoma 11. Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Casting and Recasting the Caucasian Captive 12. Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Verse Insertions in Pushkin's Prose 13. Andre G.F. van Holk (Groningen): Don-Juanism and Stylistic Code in Pushkin's The Stone Guest 14. Samantha Johnson (Keele): Pushkin at Keele: Grand Duke Michael and Countess Torby at Keele, 1901-1910. 15. Mike Kirkwood (Glasgow): Pushkin as Neo-Formalist: Domik v Kolomne 16. Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu, Estonia): Pushkin and Shakhovskoi: the problem of creative contacts 17. Monica Lebron (Goldsmiths, University of London): French Perspectives on Pushkin's Don Juan 18. Angela Livingstone (Essex): ‘The Grammar of Poetry': Semantics of Case in Poems by Pushkin 19. Barbara Lonnqvist (Abo, Finland): The Pushkin Text in Anna Karenina 20. Arnold Mcmillin (SSEES): Gilding the Lily: Pushkin's Lyrics in the Hands of Russian Composers 21. Marguerite Palmer (Keele): Pushkin's Beatrice: the Process of Beatification in Eugene Onegin 22. Valentina Polukhina (Keele): Pushkin and Brodsky: the Art of Self-deprecation. 23. Robert Reid (Keele): 'A Hundred Years Have Passed...': A Dilthean Approach to Time in Pushkin 24. Alastair Renfrew (Strathclyde): Making a National Poet: Pushkin and Burns 25. Olga Sedakova (Moscow): Pushkin's Christian Roots 26. Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts (Cornell): From Pushkin to Nabokov:The Vicissitudes of One Exegetic Tradition 27. Alexandra Smith (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Revisiting Pushkin's Poetic Image of Imperial Petersburg 28. William Mills Todd III (Harvard): Pushkin's Istoriia Pugacheva and the Experience of History 29. Christoph Veldhues (Bochum): Love and Death in Nabokov's Death and Pushkin's The Stone Guest 30. Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Pushkin between Classicism, Romanticism and Realism 31. Jekaterina Young (Manchester): Dovlatov's Sanctuary and Pushkin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%