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Review: A Convenient Territory: Russian Literature At The Edge Of Modernity, Joe Peschio
Review: A Convenient Territory: Russian Literature At The Edge Of Modernity, Joe Peschio
Russian Language Journal
The Festschrift is an odd, performative genre, and it tends to comprise loose collections of gestures—gestures of gratitude, gestures of respect, gestures of celebration. Not so with this Festschrift. With only a few exceptions, the works here are very form- and literature-centric, something as rare these days as it is welcome. This is as good a reflection as any of the honoree’s place in our field. As the astonishing bibliography of Barry Scherr’s works at the end of the book attests, he has been a strong force in formal analysis, poetics, exact methods, and, in general, empirically minded literary scholarship …