Igor Pilshchikov

Books

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  Sem’ besed o filologii i Digital Humanities: Interv’ju i diskussii (2015–2021)

  [Seven Conversations about Philology and Digital Humanities: Interviews and Discussions (2015–2021)

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  Batiushkov i literatura Italii: Filologicheskie razyskaniia

  [Batiushkov and Italian Literature: Philological Explorations]

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  Leksika i frazeologiia “Evgeniia Onegina”: Germenevticheskie ocherki

  [Vocabulary and Phraseology of Eugene Onegin: Hermeneutical Essays]

Articles

Selected Articles (by topics)

1. Russian Literature. Comparative Literature. Poetry in Translation

• “Navigium amoris and an Encounter in Mikhailovskoe (Pushkin—Zhukovsky—Florian—Cervantes),” Pushkin Review 24/25 (2022/2023): 21–49. (Russian version: 2022.)
• “Hæc sunt Roma: ‘Vospominaniia’ i ‘Rim’ Baratynskogo kak fragmenty ‘rimskogo teksta’ evropeiskoi poezii” [Hæc sunt Roma: Baratynsky’s “Recollections” and “Rome” as Fragments of the “Roman Text” of European Poetry], Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2022): 44–70. (Abridged English version: 2015)
• “‘More than Just a Poet’: Konstantin Batiushkov as an Art Critic, Art Manager, and Art Brut Painter,” Arts 11.6 (2022): 126 (61 pp.)
• “Aleksandr Pushkin, Evgenii Onegin. Kommentarii” [Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: A Commentary], in Polka: O glavnykh knigakh russkoi literatury, Moscow: Al’pina non-fiction, 2022, vol. 1, 117–142.
• “Aleksandr Pushkin, Boris Godunov: Kommentarii” [Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov: A Commentary], Ibid., 191–210.
• “Gogol’s ‘The Nose’: Between Linguistic Indecency and Religious Blasphemy,” Religions 12.8 (2021): 571 (32 pp.). (Russian version: 2019.)
• “Vergilii u Dante v ital’ianskom originale i v russkikh perevodakh (D. Min, M. Lozinskii, A. Iliushin)” [Dante’s Vergil in the Italian Original and Russian Translations (Dmitry Min, M. Lozinsky, and A. Iliushin)], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 168 (2021): 113–132.
• “‘Harlots, Wine and Chibouks’: Tobacco Smoking as a Cultural Signifier in the Age of Pushkin,” Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie 73.2 (2017): 285–330.
• “Traditsii ‘russkogo petrarkizma’ i sonety Petrarki v perevode Kuzmina” [The Traditions of “Russian Petrarchism” and Petrarch’s Sonnets Translated by Mikhail Kuzmin], in Mikhail Kuzmin: Literaturnaia sud’ba i khudozhestvennaia sreda, Saint Petersburg: Renommée, 2015, 139–157.
• “Aleksandr Pushkin mezhdu libertinazhem i dendizmom” [Alexander Pushkin Between Libertinage and Dandyism], Russian Literature 76.1/2 (2014): 35–84.
• “‘Est’ naslazhdenie i v dikosti lesov…’ K. Batiushkova (predystoriia i editsionnaia sud’ba)” [Konstantin Batiushkov’s “There is Pleasure Even in the Wildness of Forests” (Its Prepublication History and Editorial Fate)], in Khrestomatiinye teksty: russkaia pedagogiche­skaia praktika XIX v. i poeticheskii kanon (Acta Slavica Estonica 4), Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2013, 106–124.
• “Po kakomu istochniku Pushkin perevodil Ariosto?” [Which Source Did Pushkin Use to Translate Ariosto?], Russkaia literatura [56].3 (2013): 127–150.
• “Iz zametok ob inoiazychnykh zapisiakh Pushkina: Pushkin i Bërns” [From the Notes on Pushkin’s Non-Russian Marginalia: Pushkin and Robert Burns], Russkaia literatura [55].1 (2012): 87–92.
• “‘If Only Pushkin Had Not Written This Filth’: The Shade of Barkov and Philological Cover-ups,” in Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, 159–184.
• “The Proliferation of Elite Readerships and Circle Poetics in Pushkin and Baratynskii (1820s–1830s),” in The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social Imagination, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 82–107. (Preliminary Russian version: 2007.) With Joseph Peschio.
• “Petrarca nelle traduzioni dei poeti russi dell’età d’oro e dell’età d’argento” [Petrarch in the Translations of the Russian Poets of the Golden and Silver Age], Russica Romana 17 (2010): 89–114. (Russian version: 2006.)
• “Les plantes exotiques odorantes chez Batiouchkov et Pouchkine: la genèse et la fonction du motif,” Études de lettres 283 (2009): 21–35. (Russian: 2009.)
• “Iz nabliudenii nad genezisom i poetikoi elegii Baratynskogo” [A Few Observations on the Genesis and Poetics of Baratynskii’s Elegies], Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 66.3 (2007): 57–64.
• “Tibullovy elegii v perevode Batiushkova: Materialy dlia akademicheskogo kommentariia” [Tibullus’s Elegies Translated by Batiushkov: Materials for an Academic Commentary], in Tekst i kommentarii: Kruglyi stol k 75-letiiu Viacheslava Vsevolodovicha Ivanova, Moscow: Nauka, 2006, 267–336.
• “‘Bessmertnoe ponoshenie’ (Ob odnom iz poslednikh burlesknykh opytov Pushkina)” [“An Immortal Defamation” (On One of Pushkin’s Last Burlesque Works)], Philologica 8 (2003/2005): 57–88. With Nikolai Pertsov.
• “Eshche raz ob avtorstve ballady Pushkina ‘Ten’ Barkova’” [Once More about Pushkin’s Authorship of The Shade of Barkov], Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 64.3 (2005): 41–52. With Maksim Shapir.
• “Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov,” in Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama (Dictionary of Literary Biography 205), Detroit: Gale, 1999, 20–37. (Abridged Russian version: 2008.) With T. Henry Fitt.
• “Coitus as a Cross-genre Motif in Brodsky’s Poetry,” Russian Literature 37.2/3 (1995): 339–350.
• “O roli versii-posrednikov pri sozdanii perevodnogo teksta (Dmitriev—Lagarp—Skaliger—Tibull)” [On the Role of Intermediary Versions in the Genesis of a Translated Text (Dmitriev—La Harpe—Scaliger—Tibullus)], Philologica 2 (1995): 87–111 (English: 112–114).
• “Literaturnye tsitaty i alliuzii v pis’makh Batiushkova (Kommentarii k akademicheskomu kommentariiu” [Literary Quotations and Allusions in Batiushkov’s Letters (Comments on an Academic Commentary)], Philologica 1 (1994): 205–239 (English: 240–246); 2 (1995): 219–258 (English: 259–262).
• “‘Ia vozvrashchiusia k vam, polia moikh ottsov…’: Baratynskii i Tibull” [“I Shall Return to You, My Forefathers’ Fields…”: Baratynskii and Tibullus], Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 53.2 (1994): 29–47.
• “Brodsky and Baratynsky,” in Literary Tradition and Practice in Russian Culture, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993, 214–228.
• “Baratynsky’s Russian-French Self-Translations (On the Problem of Invariant Reconstruction),” Essays in Poetics 17.2 (1992): 15–22.

2. History of the Russian Language. Language in Literature

• “Iazyk pushkinskoi epokhi v trudakh I.G. Dobrodomova” [The Language of Pushkin’s Age in the Works of Igor Dobrodomov], in Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii 38 (2024): 245–262.
• “Russkii mat: chto my o nem znaem? (O proiskhozhdenii i funktsiiakh russkoi obstsennoi idiomatiki)” [Russian “Mat”: What Do We Know About It? (On the Origin and Functions of Russian Obscenities)], Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies 100 (2021): 709–760.
• “Russkii mat: vchera, segodnia, zavtra” [Russian “Mat”: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow], Ibid., 691–707. With Dennis Ioffe.
• “Avantekst kak ob”ekt avtorskoi leksikografii (neskol’ko prakticheskikh voprosov na primere slovaria iazyka Batiushkova)” [Avant-texte as an Object of Description in Poetic Lexigography (Some Practical Issues Exemplified by a Dictionary of Batiushkov’s Language)], in M.L. Gasparovu-stikhovedu in memoriam, Moscow: IaSK, 2017, 190–201.
• “Inoiazychnaia fonika v stikhakh Lermontova” [Foreign Phonetics in Lermontov’s Poetry], in Mir Lermontova, Saint Petersburg: Scriptorium, 2015, 392–405.
• “‘Ante hoc, ergo propter hoc’: Eshche raz o kriteriiakh intertekstual’nosti, ili ‘Sluchainye’ i ‘ne­sluchainye’ sblizheniia” [“Ante hoc, ergo propter hoc”: What are the Criteria of Intertextuality?], in Sluchainost’ i nepredskazuemost’ v istorii kul’tury, Tallinn: TLU Press, 2013, 188–207.
• “O lingvisticheskikh aspektakh tekstologii” [On the Linguistic Aspects of Textual Scholarship], Voprosy iazykoznaniia [60].5 (2011): 3–30. With Nikolai Pertsov.
• “Avant-Gardism of the Classics and Classicality of the Avant-Garde: Communication Strategies of Moscow Conceptualism in the Context of the Evolution of Styles in Russian Poetry from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century,” Russian Literature 69.2/4 (2011): 383–392. With Maksim Shapir.
• “Voennye terminy v stikhakh Batiushkova i Pushkina: Tekstologiia, leksikologiia, poetika (slushái, ves’ gom)” [Military Terminology in the Poetry of Batiushkov and Pushkin: Textology, Lexicology, Poetics (slushái, ves’ gom)], in Alexandro Il’ušino septuagenario oblata, Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2011, 181–190.
• “Mnogoiazychie v marginaliiakh, zapisnykh knizhkakh i pis’makh Batiushkova: ‘svoe’ i ‘chuzhoe’” [Multilingualism in Batiushkov’s Marginalia, Notebooks and Letters: the “Dometistic” and the “Foreign”], in L’ordre du chaos—le chaos de l’ordre: Hommages à Leonid Heller (Slavica Helvetica 80), Bern: Peter Lang, 2010, 369–377.
• “Parodiia i satira v kontekste sporov o iazyke (XVIII—nachalo XIX v.)” [Parody and Satire in the Context of the Disputes over Language in Russia (18th and the Early 19th Centuries)], in Logicheskii analiz iazyka: Iazykovye mekhanizmy komizma, Moscow: Indrik, 2007, 56–69.
• “Evoliutsiia stilei v russkoi poezii ot Lomonosova do Pushkina” [Evolution of Styles in Russian Poetry from Lomonosov to Pushkin], in Stikh, iazyk, poeziia: Pamiati Mikhaila Leonovicha Gasparova, Moscow: RGGU, 2006, 510–546. With Maksim Shapir.
• “Iazyk klassicheskoi elegii: leksika, frazeologiia, formuly i klishe” [The Language of the Russian Classical Elegy: Vocabulary, Phraseology, Formulae and Clichés], in Slavianskii stikh VII: Lingvistika i struktura stikha, Moscow: IaSK, 2004, 296–306.
• “Notes on the Semantics of Otzyv in Baratynsky,” Irish Slavonic Studies 15 (1994/1996): 75–101. (Russian version: 1999.)

3. Verse Theory and Poetics

• “From Variety to Monotony and Back: The Rhythm(s) of Brodsky’s Iambic Tetrameters,” in Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture, Leiden: Brill, 2024 (© 2025), 270–305. With Andrei Dobritsyn and Sergei Liapin.
• “The Concepts of ‘Verse,’ ‘Meter’ and ‘Rhythm’ in Russian Verse Theory,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 11.1 (2024): 91–117. (Russian version: 2017; Polish: 2021; Czech: 2024).
• “Lirika” [Lyrical Poetry], in Evropeiskii klassitsizm: Entsiklopedicheskii putevoditel’, Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2024, 103–246.
• “Sravnitel’noe stikhovedenie v Rossii i za rubezhom” [Comparative Verse Studies in Russia and Globally], Voprosy iazykoznaniia [71].2 (2022): 125–150. With Vera Polilova and Anastasia Belousova.
• “‘Po tu storonu dol’nika’: Bezudarnye ikty i sverkhskhemnye udareniia v russkom aktsentnom stikhe” [“The Dolnik and Beyond”: Unstressed Ictuses and Extra-schematic Stresses in Russian Accentual Verse], Kritika i semiotika [29].1 (2022): 273–318.
• “Moskovskii Lingvisticheskii Kruzhok i stanovlenie russkogo stikhovedeniia (1919‒1920)” [The Moscow Linguistic Circle and the Making of Russian Verse Theory (1919‒1920)], in Unacknowledged Legislators: Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel (Stanford Slavic Studies 50), Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, 389–413.
• “Kiril Taranovsky and his Greatest Work,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 7.2 (2020): 110–117. With Mihhail Lotman.
• “Rhythmical Ambiguity: Verbal Forms and Verse Forms,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 6.2 (2019): 53–73.
• “Zasedanie Moskovskogo lingvisticheskogo kruzhka 1 iiunia 1919 goda i zarozhdenie stikhovedcheskikh kontseptsii O. Brika, B. Tomashevskogo i R. Jakobsona” [The Meeting of the Moscow Linguistic Circle on June 1, 1919, and the Genesis of the Prosodic Theories of Osip Brik, Boris Tomashevsky and Roman Jakobson], Revue des études slaves 88.1/2 (2017): 151–175.
• “The Semiotics of Phonetic Translation,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 3.1 (2016): 53–104. (Russian version: 2011; Italian: 2013.)
• “K sporam o ritmicheskoi prirode ‘Slova o polku Igoreve’ (Neopublikovannyi otzyv Iu.M. Lotmana o stat’e L.I. Timofeeva i ego mesto v nauchnom kontekste 1960-kh—1970-kh godov)” [On the Rhythmic Pattern of the Tale of Igor’s Campaign (Yu.M. Lotman’s Unpublished Review of L.I. Timofeev’s Paper and its Place in the Scholarly Context of 1960–70s)], Russkaia literatura [58].1 (2015): 30–57. With Mikhail Trunin.
• “‘Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam’ and the Typology of the Russian Dolnik,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 2.1 (2015): 58–80. (Russian version: 2014.) With Sergei Liapin.
• “Notes on the metrical semantics of Russian, French and German imitations of Janus Secundus’s Basium II,” Sign Systems Studies 40.1/2 (2012): 155–176. (Russian version: 2009.)

4. Literary Theory. Formalism, Structuralism, and Cultural Semiotics

• “De la violencia al diálogo, o Cómo viajan las metáforas desde la política a la poética, y de regreso” [From Violence to Dialogue, or The Way of Metaphors from Politics to Poetics and Back Again], Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 27.1 (2025): 78–111. (Abridged English version: 2024.)
• “Russian Traditions: Textology, Pushkin Studies and the Digital Future,” in A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2024, 112–126.
• “‘System’ and ‘Structure’ as Terms and Concepts in Formalist and Structuralist Parlance,” Slovo a slovesnost 85.4 (2024): 265–289. (Preliminary Russian version: 2023; Chinese: 2024.)
• “Lotman i Jakobson kak pushkinisty: puti i pereput’ia” [Lotman and Jakobson as Pushkin Scholars: Paths and Crossways], Slavic Literatures 143 (2024): 79–116. (Chinese: 2022.)
• “A vida como texto: Lotman numa casca de noz” [Life as Text: Lotman in a Nutshell], RUS—Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa 24 (2023): 256–290.
• “The Four Faces of Russian Formalism,” in Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022 (© 2023), 212–257.
• “Lotman in Transnational Context,” in The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, London: Bloomsbury, 2022, 105–119.
• “Eesti teooria kui rändav teooria: Ümber maailma ja tagasi” [“Estonian Theory” as “Travelling Theory”: Around the World and Back Again], Akadeemia 394 (2022): 87–118.
• “Boris Tomashevsky,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• “El esquema comunicativo de Roman Jakobson entre lenguas y continentes: historia cruzada del modelo teórico” [Roman Jakobson’s Schema of Communication between Languages and Continents: An Histoire Croisée of the Theoretical Model], Revista de Estudios Sociales 77 (2021): 2–20. (Russian version: 2016.)
• “A poética quantitativa do Formalismo Russo” [Quantitative Poetics of Russian Formalism], RUS—Revista de Literatura e Cultura Russa 16 (2020): 9–42. (Polish: 2022.)
• “Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (1929–2017) and his Studies in Prosody and Poetics,” Studia Metrica et Poetica 5.1 (2018): 106–139. (Russian version: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 153 (2018): 163–176.) With Ronald Vroon.
• “Viktor Shklovskii v OPOIAZe i Moskovskom Lingvisticheskom Kruzhke (1919–1921 )” [Viktor Shklovsky in OPOIAZ and the Moscow Linguistic Circle (1919–1921)], Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 6 (2018): 176–206. With Andrei Ustinov.
• “Debiut Viktora Shklovskogo v Moskovskom Lingvisticheskom Kruzhke” [Viktor Shklovsky’s Début in the Moscow Linguistic Circle], Literaturnyi fakt 9 (2018): 314–334. With Andrei Ustinov.
• “Russkie formalisty kak nauchnoe soobshchestvo” [The Russian Formalists as a Scholarly Community], in Epokha “ostraneniia”: Russkii formalizm i sovremennoe gumanitarnoe znanie, Moscow: NLO, 2017, 85–100. With Tomáš Glanc.
• “‘The Inner Form of the Word’ in Russian Formalist Theory,” in Theory of Literature as a Theory of the Arts and the Humanities (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Sonderband 92), Wien: Biblion Media, 2017, 37–64. (Russian version: 2014; French: 2016.)
• “The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics: A Transnational Perspective,” Sign Systems Studies 44.3 (2016): 368–401. With Mikhail Trunin.
• “Nasledie russkoi formal’noi shkoly i sovremennaia filologiia” [The Legacy of Russian Formalism and Contemporary Philology], in Antropologiia kul’tury 5 (2015): 319–350. (Polish: 2011; Italian: 2011.)

5. Digital Humanities. Electronic Libraries and Corpora Building

• “Eslavística digital / Poética digital (un manifiesto)” [Digital Slavica / Digital Poetics (A Mani­festo)], Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 25.2 (2023): 218–233.
• “Formalismo cuantitativo ‘viejo’ y ‘nuevo’ (El Círculo Lingüístico de Moscú y el Laboratorio Literario de Stanford)” [“Old” and “New” Quantitative Formalism (The Moscow Linguistic Circle and the Stanford Literary Lab)], Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 24.1 (2022): 265–295. (Russian version: 2018; Estonian: 2022.)
• “Reconnaissance automatique des mètres des vers russes: une approche statistique sur corpus” [Automated Recognition of Russian Verse Meters: A Statistical and Corpus-Based Approach], Langages 199 (2015): 89–105. (Russian version: 2010; English: 2011.) With Anatoli Starostin.
• “Tezaurus kak instrument poetologii” [Thesaurus as a Tool in the Studies of Prosody and Poetics]. Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems 17.1 (2010): 5–24. With Vladimir Boikov, Timofei Sysoev, and Vladimir E. Zakharov.
• “Academic Digital Libraries Russian Style: An Introduction to The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore,” Slavic and East European Information Resources 6.2/3 (2005): 45–63. With Joseph Peschio and Konstantin Vigursky.
• “Filologiia i sovremennye informatsionnye tekhnologii (K postanovke problemy)” [Philology and Modern Information Technologies (Statement of the Problem)], Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 62.2 (2003): 9–16. With Konstantin Vigursky.

6. Book reviews and review essays

• “[Review of] Russische Poesie in deutschen Übersetzungen: Bibliographie ausgewählter Werke, by Ilya Perelmuter. Wien: danzig & unfried, 2020,” Pushkin Review 24/25 (2022/2023): 115–126.
• “[Review of] Ilya Vinitsky, Graf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia kul’tura, Moscow: NLO, 2017,” The Russian Review 78.1 (2019): 141–142.
• “The Prague School on a Global Scale: a Coup d’œil from the East,” Slovo a slovesnost 80.3 (2019): 215–228.
• “V šesti jazycích: Nad knihou Pražská škola v korespondenci” [In Six Languages: Reflections on the Book, The Prague School in Correspondence], Česká literatura 63.4 (2015): 573–584. (Russian version: 2019.)
• “Nad prvním ruským výborem prací Miroslava Červenky” [On the First Russian Edition of Miroslav Červenka’s Selected Works], Česká literatura 60.3 (2012): 428–444. (Russian version: 2013.) With Sergei Liapin.
• “[Review of] B.Ia. Bukhshtab, Fet i drugie: Izbrannye raboty, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2000,” Novaia Russkaia Kniga 9 (2001): 84–86.
• “[Review of] E.A. Baratynskii, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2000,” Philologica 6 (1999/2000): 377–390.
• [Review of] “Vladimir Nabokov, Kommentarii k romanu A.S. Pushkina ‘Evgenii Onegin,’ Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo-SPB, 1998; Vladimir Nabokov, Kommen­tarii k ‘Evgeniiu Oneginu’ Aleksandra Pushkina, Moscow: Intelvak, 1999” (with Igor Dobrodomov), Philologica 5 (1998): 403–424.
• “Optics of Minds: Valentina Polukhina, Brodsky through the Eyes of his Contemporaries, London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. (A Review Article),” Essays in Poetics 18.2 (1993): 12–17.