Publications by Type: Book Chapters

2007
“Nuances of Judgment in the Stories of Shalamov (in Russian).” In K stoletiu so dnia rozhdenia Varlama Shalamova (Proceedings of the Shalamov Centennial Conference), 109-113, 2007, 109-113.
“Testimony and Doubt: Varlam Shalamov’s ‘How It Began’ and ‘Handwriting,’.” In Real Stories: Imagined Realities: Fictionality and Non-fictionality in Literary Constructs and Historical Contexts, 51-67. Ed. Markku Lehtimäki, Simo Leisti and Marja Rytkönen. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2007.
2005
“Fear and the Crowd: A Reconsideration of Some Motifs of Gulag Literature (in Russian).” In Semiotika strakha, 320-328. Ed. Nora Buhks and Francis Conte. Moscow: Ruskii Institut?Evropa, 2005.Abstract

Reprinted in K stoletiu so dnia rozhdenia Varlama Shalamova (Proceedings of the Shalamov Centennial Conference). Moscow, 2007, pp. 114–24.

“Nabokov's Worldview.” In The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov, 232-47. Ed. Julian Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2004
“Anatolii Kuznetsov.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, 299 (Holocaust Novelists):195-200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman (Gale), 2004.
“On the Legitimacy of Comparisons: The Gulag ‘Goner’ and the Auschwitz Muselmann(in Russian).” In Jews and Slavs, 14 :325-30. Festschrift for Professor Ilya Serman. Jerusalem/Moscow: Gesharim?Mosty kul'ture, 2004.
2003
“Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol: Doing Things in Style.” In Nabokov at Cornell, 136-47. Ed. G. Shapiro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
2002
“Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity.” In Nabokov's World, I:132-40. Ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin and Priscilla Meyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
2001
“Afterword (in Hebrew).” In T. S. Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Herbrew translation by Ruth Blumert, 51-59. Tel Aviv: Keshev, 2001.
“A Brief History of Ekwilism.” In Critical Interfaces: Contributions in Philosophy, Literature and Culture in Honour of Herbert Grabes, 333-41. Ed. Gordon Collier, Klaus Schwank and Franz Wieselhuber. Trier: Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2001.
2000
“Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’ and Shalamov’s ‘The Artist of the Spade’: The Discourse of Lent.” In Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia, 277-91. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.Abstract

Revised and reprinted, along with the translation (by N. Strazhas) of Shalamov's "The Artist of the Spade" in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 179-190 and 191-201.

1999
“‘The Dead Are Good Mixers’: Nabokov’s Version of Individualism.” In Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives, 92-108. Ed. Julian Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
“Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s ‘Condensed Milk’.” In Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility, 241-56. Ed. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.Abstract

Reprinted in The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story: A Critical Companion. Ed. Lyudmila Parts. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2010, pp. 185–200.

1998
“Maule’s Well and Its Metaphoric Echoes in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.” In Sounding the Depths: Water as Metaphor in North-American Literatures, 35-44. Ed. Christine Raguet-Bouvart and Gayle Wurst. Liege: University of Liege Press, 1998.
1996
“The Adventures of Jenny Jones: Fielding’s ‘Fine Old Moralism’ Reconsidered.” In Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H.M. Daleski, 149-61. Ed. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Leona Toker, and Shuli Barzilai. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996.Abstract

Revised version, "Oppositionality in Fielding's Tom Jones," in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 35-48.

1995
“Nabokov and Bergson.” In The Garland Companion to Nabokov, 667-73. Ed. V. Alexandrov. New York: Garland, 1995.
“Représentation de la crise dans l’oeuvre de Nathaniel Hawthorne: Le Mode Carnivalesque, trans. Christine Raguet-Bouvart.” In Éclats de voix: Crises en représentation dans la littérat ure nord-américaine, 97-109. Ed. Christine Raguet-Bouvart. La Rochelle: Rumeur des Ages, 1995.Abstract

Revised English version, "Carnival and Crisis in Three Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne," in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 21-34. 

“Versions of Job: Some Jewish Characters in the Stories of Varlam Shalamov.” In Jews and Slavs, 4:253-66. Ed. W. Moskovich, S. Shwarzband, and A. Alekseev. Jerusalem: FPL, 1995.
1994
“Documentary Prose and the Role of the Reader: Some Stories of Varlam Shalamov.” In Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy, 169-93. Ed. Leona Toker. New York: Garland, 1994.
“Introduction.” In Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy, xi-xxxii. Ed. Leona Toker. New York: Garland, 1994.

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