Foreword
Tabula Gratulatoria
Tomas Hägg
Jostein Børtnes: Tracing a Scholarly Profile
Henrik Birnbaum
Medieval Slavonic Hagiography as a Political Tool
Ingunn Lunde
The Rhetoric of Paradox: Cyril of Turov's Sermon on the Taking of Christ's
Body from the Cross
Per-Arne Bodin
Hesychasm and Hymnography: Pakhomii the Serb and the Sluzhba to St Sergii
of Radonezh
Carl Stief
Bylinisation: The Stavr Godinovich Bylina about the Clever Wife who Frees
her Husband from Prison
Malcolm V. Jones
The Evolution of Fantastic Realism in Russian Literature: Gogol', Dostoevskii
and Bulgakov
Peter Ulf Møller
Counter-Images of Russianness: On the Role of National Characterology in
Gogol's Dead Souls
Knut Andreas Grimstad
Nikolai Leskov and the Problem of Polyethnicity
Barbara Lönnqvist
Simvolika zhelesa v romane Anna Karenina
Gary Saul Morson
Tempics and The Idiot
Peter Alberg Jensen
Some Remarks on the Russian "Antinovel"
Kristin Eikeland
Functions of Hagiographic Discourse in the Life of
Father Zosima
Erik Egeberg
How Should We Then Read The Idiot?
Robin Feuer Miller
Dostoevskii, the Peasants and Problems of Representation
Geir Kjetsaa
The Suppressed Chapter in The Devils
Diane Oenning Thompson
The Problem of Conscience in Crime and Punishment
Randi Gaustad
Rebuilding Gothic on Russian Soil: The Roles of Religion and Intertwining
of Minds in Dostoevskii's The Landlady
Nina Perlina
Rethinking Adolescence
Audun J. Mørch
Dostoevskii's Krotkaia: A Sacrificial Suicide
Vladimir Zakharov
Umilenie kak kategoriia poetiki Dostoevskogo
Lillian Jorunn Helle
Blok and Akhmatova: From Carnivalesque Resurrection to Symbolic Crucifixion
Ivan Esaulov
Crucifixion of the Resurrected and the Paschal Archetype of Russian Culture
Astrid S. Brokke
The Poet as a Young Woman: Anna Akhmatova and her Representation of the
Lyric I as Artist
Brita Lotsberg Bryn
Pasternak's Poem "Balashov" in the Light of
Cubist Aesthetics
Boris Uspenskij
Dialog u Bakhtina
Rasmus T. Slaattelid
Ethics of Genre: Bakhtin at the Limits of Language
Aaron Gurevich
Pochemu ia skandinavist? Opyt sub''ektivnogo osmysleniia nekotorykh tendentsii
sovremennogo istoricheskogo znaniia
Victor Bychkov
Russian Aesthetics of the Early Twentieth Century on the Essence of Art
Ingunn Lunde
Jostein Børtnes: A Bibliography
Contributors
