Publications

2005
“Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov’s Art of Testimony.” Poetics Today 26, no. 2 (2005): 281-303.
2004
“Anatolii Kuznetsov.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, 299 (Holocaust Novelists):195-200. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman (Gale), 2004.
“Review ofDonald T. Critchlow and Agnieszka Critchlow, eds. Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag; Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson, Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag.” Russian Review 63, no. 2 (2004): 354.
“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.
“Love, That Four-Letter Word: A Response to Amanpal Garcha.” Connotations 13, no. 1-2 (2004): 105-110.
“Vocation and Sympathy in Daniel Deronda: The Self and the Larger Whole.” Victorian Literature and Culture 32, no. 2 (2004): 565-74.
2003
“Discourse of Testimony: Review of Conversations with Ka-Tsetnik by Yehiel Szeintuch (in Hebrew).” Haaretz, 2003, March 19, Sfarim 1, 7.
“Review ofRichard Freadman, Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will.” Partial Answers 1, no. 2 (2003): 168-72.
“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.
“Conspicuous Leisure and Invidious Sexuality in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.” Connotations 11, no. 2-3 (2002): 222-40.Abstract

Reprinted, with some revision, in Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction

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
“Review of Adam Weiner,By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia.” Slavic Review 59, no. 1 (2000): 241-42.
“Review of Galya Diment,Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Sceftel.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 13 (2000): 69-71.
“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.

“The Reversal of the Public and the Private in Tertz/Siniavsky’s Goodnight!.” Slavic Almanach 6 (2000): 84-97.
“W. B. Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter”: Ironies of the Patriarchal Stance.” Connotations 9, no. 1 (2000): 100-110.
“The Private Domain and the Domain of Limited Access in Nabokov’s Autobiography (in Russian).” Révue des Études Slaves 72, no. 3-4 (2000): 415-21.
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Toker, Leona. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

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