CONTENTS
THE WRITER IN LITERARY HISTORY
Stephen Rachman. Pearl S. Buck in Literary History
Olga Panova. Pearl S. Buck and the USSR
Andrey Tanaseichuk. Ambrose Bierce’s Literary Environment, 1890–1900
POETICS. READING AND INTERPRETING
Edgar Allan Poe
Elena Apenko. The Reader’s Figure in Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Artistic Creativity
Elvira Osipova. On Poe’s Translations in Russia
OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD
Rubén Darío: 150th Birth Anniversary
Octavio Paz. The Siren and the Seashell. Part II. Transl. A. Gladoshuk
Rubén Darío. Foreign Writers in Paris. Transl. T. Balashova
LITERATURE IN CONTEXT
Elena Dotsenko. “Lincoln” by T. Kushner and S. Spielberg: the Epic Scope of the “Pre-election” Movie
Elena Yushkova. “One of the Great Modern Saints”: Vachel Lindsay on Isadora Duncan’s Book “My Life”
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES
ESSAYS. SKETCHES. NOTES
Fernando Aínsa. Crónica y ensayo: analogías e interdependencies
Ekaterina Stetsenko. The Concept of Childishness in the Literature of the United States of America
MEMORABLE DATE
ACADEMIC LIFE. NEWS. EVENTS. BOOK REVIEWS
Natalia Vysotska. American Literary Studies in Ukraine: State-ofthe-Art
Yuri Stulov. American Studies in Belarus