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Ronald Vroon, Ph.D. 

Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures. 

Address: 

Univeristy of California, Los Angeles 
Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures 
115 Kinsey Hall, Box 951502 
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502 

Phone:  (310) 825-8724 
Dept:     (310) 825-2676 
Fax:      (310) 206-5263 

vroon@humnet.ucla.edu 

 

Publications

BOOKS (authored) 

1. Velimir Xlebnikov's Shorter Poems: A Key to the Coinages. Ann Arbor:  Michigan Slavic Materials, 1983.  

2. Velimir Xlebnikov's Krysa: A Commentary. Stanford Slavic  Studies (Stanford, 1988). 200 pp.

BOOKS (edited) 

1. Jurij Lotman. The Structure of the Artistic Text. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Materials, 1977. 300 pp. (Preface: i-vii; annotations throughout). 

2. The Structure of the Literary Process. Ed. P. Steiner, M.  Cervenka and R. Vroon.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1982. 

3. Velimir Khlebnikov. Collected Works. Vol. II.  Cambridge:  Harvard University  Press, 1989. 

4. Readings in Russian Modernism: To Honor of Vladimir  Markov. UCLA Slavic Studies.  New Series II. Ed. with John  Malmstad. Moscow: Nauka, 1993. 

5. Velimir Khlebnikov. Collected Works, Vol. III. Tr. Paul Schmidt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 

6. A. P. Sumarokov. Ody torzhestvennye. Elegii ljubovnye. Stat'i i kommentarii [A. P. Sumarokov. Solemn Odes. Love Elegies. Essays and Commentary]. Moscow: Its-Garant, 1999 (forthcoming). 

ARTICLES  

1. "Gogol in Oblomovka." Russian Literature Triquarterly, no. 3 (Spring 1972), 282-296 (15 pp). 

2. "Velimir Khlebnikov's `The Seashore' (`Morskoi bereg') and the Razin Constellation." Russian Literature Triquarterly, no. 12 (Spring 1974), 295-326 (32 pp). 

3. "V. V. Ivanov's Essays on the History of Semiotics in the USSR." Co-author G. Vroon. Dispositio: Revisita Hispanica de Semiotica Literaria, 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1976), 356-360 (5 pp).  

4. "Velimir Khlebnikov's `Razin: Two Trinities': A Reconstruction." Slavic Review, 39, no. 1 (March 1980), 68-84 (17 pp).  

5. "Literature as Litigation: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago." Russian History, 7, no. 1-2 (1980), 213-238 (26 pp). 

6. "Velimir Chlebnikov's `Chadzhi-Tarchan' and the Lomonosovian Tradition." Russian Literature, 9 (January 1981), 107-131 (25 pp.). 

7. "Four Analogues to Xlebnikov's `Language of the Gods.'" The Structure of the Literary Process. Ed. P. Steiner, M. Cervenka and R. Vroon. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1982. 581-97 (17 pp.). 

8. "Velimir Khlebnikov's `I esli v `Khar'kovskie ptitsy'...': Manuscript Sources and Subtexts." Russian Review, 42, no. 3 (July 1983), 249-270 (22 pp.). 

9. "Puti tvorchestva: The Journal as a Metapoetic Statement." In Russian Literature and American Critics. Ed. K. Brostrom. Papers in Slavic Philology, 4. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Materials, 1984. 219-239 (21 pp). 

10. "Cycle and History: the Case of Aleksandr Blok's `Rodina.'" Slavic and East European Journal, 28, no. 3 (Fall 1984), 340-357 (18 pp). 

11. "Neizvestnyi diptikh Velimira Xlebnikova" ["An Unknown Dyptich by Velimir Khlebnikov"] Russkaja mysl': Literaturnoe prilozhenie, no. 3, June 1986, p. 3 (1 p.). 

12. "Metabiosis, Mirror Images and Negative Integers: Velimir Chlebnikov and His Doubles." In Velimir Chlebnikov (l885-l922): Myth and Reality. Ed. W. Weststeijn. Studies in Slavic Literatures and Poetics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, l986. 73-91 (47 pp). 

13. "The Calendar Poems of Velimir Chlebnikov: a Textual Critique." In Velimir Chlebnikov (l885-l922): Myth and Reality. Ed. W. Weststeijn. Studies in Slavic Literatures and Poetics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, l986. 73-91 (19 pp.). 

14. "Cycle and History: Maksimilian Voloshin's `Puti Rossii.'" Scando-Slavica, 31 (1986), 55-73 (19 pp.). 

15. "Prosody and Poetic Sequences." In Russian Verse Theory: Proceedings of the 1987 Conference at UCLA. UCLA Slavic Series 18. Ed. Barry P. Scherr and Dean S. Worth. Columbus, Ohio: Slavic Publishers, Inc., 1990. 473-490 (18 pp). 

16. "The Citadel of the Revolutionary Word: Notes on the Poetics of Benedikt Livshits." Russian Literature, Vol. 27 (1990), 533-556 (24 pp.).  

17. "Aleksei Kruchenykh's `Razboinik Van'ka Kain' and the Literary Politics of LEF." Slavic Review, 50, no. 2 (1991), 359-370. (12 pp.)  

18. "Benedikt Livshits' Patmos: the Cycle and its Subtexts." In The Silver Age in Russian Literature: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990. Ed. John Elsworth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 104-135 (32 pp.). 

19. "Velimir Khlebnikov and the Art of Verbal Duplicity." In Russian Modernism: Essays in Honor of Vladimir Markov . UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series II. Ed. with John Malmstad. Moscow: Nauka, 1993. 349-364 (16 pp.). 

20. "The Old Belief and Sectarianism as Cultural Models in the Silver Age." Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, vol. 2: Russian Culture in Modern Times. Ed. Robert P. Hughes and Irina Paperno. California Slavic Studies, 17. University of California Press, 1994. 172-190 (19 pp.). 

21. "Velimir Khlebnikov's Otryvki iz dosok sud'by: Notes on the Publication History and Three Rough Drafts." In Temy i variacii " Themes and Variations: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman. Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 8. 1994. 326-342 (17 pp). 

22. "Simeon Polotsky." In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 150: Early Modern Russian Writers. Ed. Marcus Levitt. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 1995. 291-307 (17 pp.). 

23. "Chitalagaiskie ody" (K istorii liricheskogo tsikla v russkoi literature XVIII veka" ["The Chitalagai Odes (Towards a History of the Lyric Sequence in Russian Literature of the XVIII Century")]. In Gavrila Derzhavin: Simpozium, posvjashchennyi 250-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. Ed. E. Etkind and S. Elnickaia. Norwich Symposia on Russian Literature and Culture, IV. Northfield, Vermont: The Russian School of Norwich University, 1995. 185-201 (17 pp.). 

24. "The Manifesto as a Literary Genre: Some Preliminary Observations." International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 38 (1988/1995), 163-173 (11 pp).  

25. "Dmitrii Furmanov's Chapaev and the Aesthetics of the Russian Avant-garde." In Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment. Ed. John Bowlt and Olga Matich. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. 219-234, 329-332 (20 pp.). 

26. "Karion Istomin." In Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Literatures (MESBEL). Vol. 10. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1996. 188-198 (11 pp.). 

27. "Aleksandr Sumarokov's Ody torzhestvennye (Toward a History of the Russian Lyric Sequence in the Eighteenth Century)." Zeitschrift fňuur slavische Philologie, 50, no. 2 (1995-96), 223-263 (41 pp.). 

28. "Khlebnikov i Platonov: predvaritel'nye zametki" ["Khlebnikov and Platonov: Some Preliminary Remarks"]. In Jazyk kak tvorchestvo. K 70-letiiu V. P. Grigor'eva. Moscow: Institut russkogo iazyka RAN, 1996. 55-65 (11 pp.). 

29. "Genezis zamysla `sverkhpovesti' `Zangezi' (K voprosu ob evoljucii liricheskogo `ja' u Khlebnikova" ["The Genesis of the Supertale Zangezi (On the Evolution of Khlebnikov's Lyric Persona)"]. In Vestnik Obshchestva Velimira Khlebnikova, 1 (Moscow: Gileia, 1996). 140-159 (20 pp.). 

30. "The Garden in Russian Modernism: Notes on the Problem of MentalitŔ in the New Peasant Poetry." Revue des Řtudes Slaves, 69, no. 11997, 135-151 (16 pp.).  

31. "The Poet and His Voices." In Velimir Khlebnikov. Selected Writings, Vol. III. Tr. Paul Schmidt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 1-21 (21 pp.).  

32. "Staroobriadchestvo, sektanstvo i `sakral'naia rech' v poŽzii Nikolaia Kliueva" ["The Old Belief, Sectarianism and `Sacred Speech' in the Poetry of Nikolai Kliuev"] In Nikolai Kliuev: issledovaniia i materialy. Ed. S. I. Subbotin. Moscow: Nasledie, 1997. 54-67 (14 pp.). 

33. "Notes on the Renaissance of the Lyric Sequence in the Silver Age," in Proceedings of the International Conference "Zyklusdichtung in den slavischen Literaturen, Magdeburg, 18-20 March 1997 (forthcoming, 1998). 

34. "Znak Bliznetsov: popytka podxoda k pervomu sborniku stikhov Pasternaka" ["The Sign of the Twins: An Approach to Pasternak's First Collection of Verse"] In Pasternakovskie chteniia, II. Moscow: Institut mirovoi literatury, 1998. 

35. "Liricheskii tsikl." Commissioned for Teoriia literatury. 2 vols. Moscow: Institut mirovoi literatury, 1998 (forthcoming). 

REVIEWS 

1. Review of Boris Poplavskii's Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 1, ed. S. Karlinsky and A. Olcott. Slavic Review, 40, No. 2 (Summer 1981), 222-223 (2 pp). 

2. Review of Russian: Stage One by G. Bitekhtina, D. Davidson, and N. Fedyanina. Slavic and East European Journal, 26, No. 1 (Spring 1982), 129-130 (2 pp.). 

3. Review of Xlebnikov and Carnival: An Analysis of the Poem Poet, by Barbara L‡nnqvist. Slavic Review, 41, No. 2 (Summer 1982), 388-90 (3 pp.). 

4. Review of Velimir Khlebnikov: poŽte futuriŽn, by Jean-Claude Lanne. The Russian Review, 44, No. 4 (October l985), 409-410 (2 pp.). 

5. Review of Velimir Chlebnikov and the Development of Poetical Language in Russian Symbolism and Futurism, by W. G. Weststeijn. The Russian Review, 44, No. 2 (April l985), 188-190 (3 pp.). 

6. Review of Slovotvorchestvo i smezhnye problemy jazyka poŽta, by V. P. Grigor'ev. Slavic and East European Journal, 33, No. 1 (Spring 1989), 130-131 (2 pp.). 

7. Review of Velimir Khlebnikov. A Critical Study by Raymond Cooke. In Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1989), pp. 429-31 (3 pp).  

8. Review of Velimir Xlebnikov. Priroda tvorchestva, by R. V. Duganov. Slavic and East European Journal, 37, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 130-131 (2 pp.). 

9. Review of Iakobson-Budetlianin: Sbornik materialov, ed. by B. Jangfeldt. Slavic Review, 52, No 2 (1993), pp. 404-405 (2 pp.). 

10. Review of Lenie Lauwers, Igor'-Severjanin: His Life and Works, in The Russian Review, 56, no. 2 (April 1997), 304-305 (2 pp.). 
 

 

 

 


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