Author(s): Gary Kern
Publisher: Ardis
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 0
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction. The Ultimate Anti-Utopia......Page 10
I. The Soviet View......Page 24
1. Alexander Voronsky: Evgeny Zamyatin......Page 26
2. Viktor Shklovsky: Evgeny Zamyatin’s Ceiling......Page 50
3. M. M. Kuznetsov: Evgeny Zamyatin......Page 52
4. O. N. Mikhailov: Zamyatin......Page 57
II. Mythic Criticism......Page 60
5. Richard A. Gregg: Two Adams and Eve in the Crystal Palace: Dostoevsky, the Bible, and We......Page 62
6. Christopher Collins: Zamyatin’s We as Myth......Page 71
7. Owen Ulph: I-330: Reconsiderations on the Sex of Satan......Page 81
III. Aesthetics......Page 94
8. Carl R. Proffer: Notes on the Imagery in Zamyatin’s We......Page 96
9. Ray Parrott: The Eye in We......Page 107
10. Gary Kern: Zamyatin’s Stylization......Page 119
11. Milton Ehre: Zamyatin’s Aesthetics......Page 131
12. Susan Layton: Zamyatin and Literary Modernism......Page 141
13. Leighton Brett Cooke: Ancient and Modern Mathematics in Zamyatin's We......Page 150
IV. Influences and Comparisons......Page 170
14. Elizabeth Stenbock-Fermor: A Neglected Source of Zamyatin’s We......Page 172
Addendum: “The New Utopia” by Jerome K. Jerome......Page 174
15. Kathleen Lewis & Harry Weber: Zamyatin’s We, the Proletarian Poets and Bogdanov’s Red Star......Page 187
16. E. J. Brown: Brave New World, 1984 & We: An Essay on Anti-Utopia......Page 210
17. John J. White: Mathematical Imagery in Musil’s Young Törless and Zamyatin's We......Page 229
18. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.: Zamyatin and the Strugatskys: The Representation of Freedom in We and The Snail on the Slope......Page 237
New Zamyatin Materials......Page 262
1. The Presentists (1918)......Page 264
2. Four Letters to Lev Lunts (1923-24)......Page 267
3. A Letter from Ilya Ehrenburg (1926)......Page 273
4. Excerpts from Unpublished Letters to his Wife (1929-30)......Page 274
5. The Modern Russian Theater (1931)......Page 278
6. The Future of the Theater (1931)......Page 291
7. Auto-Interview (1932)......Page 296
Sources......Page 302
Bibliography for Further Reading......Page 306
