Studies in Poetics: Commemorative Volume Krystyna Pomorska (1928-1986), edited by Elena Semeka-Pankratov, 588 pp., 1995 (ISBN:0-89357-256-X), cloth: $34.95.

Contents: Introduction: Elena Semeka-Pankratov: Editor's Preface; Henryk Baran: Krystyna Pomorska as Scholar: A Quest for Structure; A Tribute to Krystyna Pomorska: Elzbieta Chodakowska Ettinger: Reflections on the Life of a Friend; Elzbieta Ettinger: "The Boiler" by Zofia Nalkowska (trans. from Polish); Stephen Rudy: A Translation of a Poem by Boris Pasternak on Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in Memoriam Krystyna Pomorska Jakobson; Kari Egerton: A Letter from a Former Student; Samuel Jay Keyser: Mt. Auburn Cemetery; Semiotics of Culture: Lubomir Dolezhel: Roman Jakobson as a Student of Communication; Katherine T. O'Connor: Chekhov's Death: His Textual Past Recaptured; Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno: A Semiotic Model of Meaning in the Composite Artistic Text; C. H. van Schooneveld: Dumezil's Three Functions and the Semantic Structure of Language; Jindrich Toman: A Timely Reminder: Baudouin de Courtenay's Approach to the National Question; Thomas G. Winner: The Semiotics of Surrealism in the World of the Czech Avantgarde of the 1920s and 1930s; Structural Poetics: Joe Andrew: `The Caresses of Black-Eyed Captive Women': Narrative, Desire and Gender in Pushkin's The Prisoner of the Caucasus; Edna Andrews: The Boundaries of Sense: Cvetaeva's Extension of the Morpheme; Bayara Aroutunova: Obrazy pernatyx v poetike B. Pasternaka; Henryk Baran: Majakovskij's Holiday Poem in a Literary-Cultural Context; Catherine V. Chvany: The Poetics of Truth in Solzhenicyn's Zaxar-Kalita (Zakhar-the-Pouch); Neil Cornwell: Changing Places: Doctor Zhivago and the Russian Novel; Thomas Eekman: Trains and Travel in Chexov's Works; Boris Gasparov: Ob odnom ritmiko-muzykal'nom motive v proze Pasternaka; Edythe C. Haber: Bulgakov's White Guard and Pushkin; Morris Halle: An Orally Transmitted Poem of Majakovsky; Robert E. Jones: Gogol and the French Dramatists of the Absurd; Kathleen Parthe: The Poetics of Village Prose; Barry P. Scherr: Narrative Strategies in Tolstoy's Childhood; Elena Semeka-Pankratov: Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter: Literature and Folklore; Savely Senderovich: Doktor Zhivago i Georgij Pobedonosec; Robert Szulkin: Gogol's The Nose in Light of Sterne's Tristram Shandy; Vladimir N. Toporov: Elena Guro: Mif o voploshchenii iunoshi-syna, o ego smerti i voskresenii; Boris A. Uspensky: Anatomiia metafory u Mandel'shtama; Kei I. Yamanaka: A Cat Has Nine Names: Semiotic Analysis of Poe's The Black Cat; Linguistics and Poetics: Tat'jana Ja. Elizarenkova: O poniatii "novoj pesni" v Rigvede; Alexander Lubotsky: Accentuation in the Technique of the Vedic Poets; Elena V. Paducheva: K strukture teksta: govoriashchii kak sub''ekt rechi i sub''ekt soznaniia; Calvert Watkins: A Figure of Poetic Grammar in Indo-European: Synchrony and Diachrony in nuce; Olga T. Yokoyama: Narrative Intonation in Zoshchenko.

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