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Caryl Emerson
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A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Department |
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241 East Pyne Hall |
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9:00AM-1:00PM |
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609-258-4730 or 258-4726 |
| e-mail: |
cemerson@princeton.edu |
| education: |
PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Texas at Austin, 1980);
MAT in Russian Language Teaching, and Russian Studies (Harvard University, 1968);
BA in Russian Literature (Cornell University, 1966) |
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profile: For several decades my scholarly and teaching interests have been focused on the 19th century (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Russian opera) with a 20th-century pocket for Mikhail Bakhtin. Some of these themes recycle (Pushkin's Boris Godunov, for example, which was both part of my dissertation and featured in April 2007 on the Princeton campus, a premiere of the unrealized Pushkin / Meyerhold / Prokofiev staging of 1937); others are relatively new, such as my interest in the fate of the scholarly humanities (in the States and in contemporary Russia); the Central European novel; Russian spiritual philosophy; and dramatic experiments on the Stalinist-era stage (both Moscow Chamber Theater, and Meyerhold's troupe), especially adaptations of the classics with incidental music.
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courses: Undergraduate courses taught:
Survey of 19th century Literature
Tolstoy's War and Peace
Russians and the Devil
The Eastern European Novel
Graduate courses taught:
Evolution of Russian Prose
Russian Approaches to Literature and Culture (Formalists, Bakhtin, Cultural Semiotics)
Tolstoy; Readings in Russian Spiritual Philosophy
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current project:
My Introduction to Russian Literature has just appeared (CUP, 2008), and several other projects are in process: Lydiia Ginzburg's alternatives to both the Formalists and Bakhtin; a restoration of the playscript of Egyptian Nights (parts George Bernard Shaw, Pushkin, and Shakespeare), performed in 1934-35 by Tairov's Moscow Chamber Theater with Prokofiev's music; and, for the long term, the dramatic and essayistic works of the Russian surrealist and philosopher of the theater, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950).
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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature.
Cambridge University Press.
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The Uncensored Boris Godunov: A Case for Pushkin's 1825 Original, with Annotated Text and Translation.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. (Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood)
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The Life of Musorgsky.
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Princeton University Press, 1997.
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Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. (with Robert William Oldani)
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics.
Stanford University Press, 1990. (with Gary Saul Morson)
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Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme.
Indiana University Press, 1986.
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"Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition."
in Shostakovich and his World Ed. Laurel E. Fay. Bard Music Festival/Princeton University Press, 2004. 183-226.
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"Zosima's 'Mysterious Visitor': Again Bakhtin on Dostoevsky, and Dostoevsky on Heaven and Hell."
in A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov. Ed. Robert Louis Jackson. Northwestern University Press, 2003. 155-79.
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"Tolstoy's Aesthetics."
in Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Ed. Donna Tussing Orwin. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 237-51.
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"Coming to Terms with Bakhtin's Carnival: Ancient, Modern, Sub Specie Aeternitatis."
Bakhtin and the Classics. Ed. R. Bracht Branham. Northwestern University Press, 2001. 5-26.
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"Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Lydia Ginzburg on Types of Selves: A Tribute."
in Self and Story in Russian History. Eds. Laura Engelstein and Stephanie Sandler. Cornell University Press, 2000. 20-45.
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"Artur Vincent Lourié's 'Blackamoor of Peter the Great': Pushkin's Exotic Ancestor as Twentieth-Century Opera."
in Under the Sky of my Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. Eds. Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy et al. Northwestern University Press, 2006. 332-67.
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"Двадцать пять лет спустя: Гаспаров о Бахтине". ["Twenty-Five Years Later: Gasparov on Bakhtin."]
in Voprosy literatury. Vol. 2 (March-April 2006): 12-47. Forum in memoriam M. L. Gasparov (1935-2005).
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"Bakhtin After 1990: How Having the Early Writings in English Has Reconfigured the Whole."
in Festschrift for Vadim Liapunov Eds. Stephen H. Blackwell and Nina Perlina. Indiana Slavic Studies, 2000. 1-21.
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"Theory."
in The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Eds. Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 271-93.
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"Chekhov and the Annas."
in Life and Text: Essays in Honour of Geir Kjetsaa on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Eds. Erik Egeberg, Audun J. Morch, Ole Michael Selberg. Oslo: 1997. 121-132.
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"Prosaics and the Problem of Form."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 1997): 16-39.
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"Tatiana."
in A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature. Ed. Sona Stephan Hoisington. Northwestern University Press, 1995. 6-20.
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"Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina."
in Reading Opera. Eds. Arthur Groos and Roger Parker. Princeton University Press, 1988. 235-67.
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"The Tolstoy Connection in Bakhtin."
in PMLA. Vol. 100 (January 1985): 68-80.
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"The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language."
in Critical Inquiry. Vol. 10, No. 2 (December 1983): 245-264.
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