Omry Ronen |
| Dept of Slavic Langs & Lits 3002 Modern Languages Building The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275 |
(734) 647-2134 omronen@umich.edu |
Professor Ronen is a leading specialist in Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His main field of research is the history and theory of Russian poetry. His explications are well-known among specialists and are also often acknowledged in the standard editions of such authors as Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Vladislav Khodasevich, Osip Mandel'stam, Fedor Sologub, Yurii Tynianov, and other 20th century classics. He is a world-renowned authority on the Russian poet Mandel'shtam---his An Approach to Mandel'stam (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1983) has become a classic. His numerous articles focus on questions of intertextuality and hermeneutics, myth transformation in lyric poetry, paronomasia in poetry and prose, and a broad range of theoretical issues.
Professor Ronen's best-known achievement in the field of theory is his original approach to intertextuality and his definition of subtext as a structural element of poetic style, which fulfills not only the referential function as the field of solution of textual semantic riddles and the metalinguistic function of quotational polyphony, but also the poetic function of distanced reiteration, and therefore can be integrated in the general Jakobsonian theory of verbal art.
Some of Professor Ronen's research had to do with the origin and transformations of various influential poetic catchwords, both historical (the image of Russian as the "Sphinx") and critical, such as the concept of the "Silver Age." He is currently preparing for publication several collections of his selected articles and working, in cooperation with M.L. Gasparov, on commentaries to the poetry of Osip Mandel'shtam.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1999 - 2001
Books:
Poetika Osipa Mandel'shtama: Izbrannye stat'i [The Poetics of Osip Mandel'shtam: Selected Essays], St. Petersburg: Hyperion. To be published in February 2002. 238 pp.
Serebrianyi vek kak umysel i vymysel, [Materialy i issledovaniia po istorii russkoi kul'tury, Vol. 4], Moscow: Ob''edinnennoe Gumanitarnoe Izdatel'stvo, 2000. 152 pp. [An improved and augmented Russian version of The Fallacy of the Silver Age, Amsterdam, 1997].
---. Second, corrected edition. Moscow: O.G.I., 2000.
Articles:
"Puti Viktora Shklovskogo v «Putevoditele po Berlinu»" [Viktor Shklovsky's Tracks in «A Guide to Berlin»]. Zvezda (St. Peterburg), 1999, #4 (The Vladimir Nabokov Centennial Issue): 164-173 [in Russian].
"Anagrammatizatsiia imeni gromovnika u Tiutcheva i ee peredacha v angliiskom perevode" [Anagrammatization of Thunder-God's Name in Tiutchev's Poem and Its Rendering in an English Translation]. In: Polytropon. "To 70th Birthday of Vladimir Toporov". Moscow: Indrik, 1998 [appeared in 1999]. 763-769 [in Russian].
"Poezija i gramatika naslova poglavlja u Kapetanovoj kceri" [Poetry and Grammar in the Table of Contents of The Captain's Daughter], Knijizevna smotra (Zagreb) XXXI (1999), #112-113 (2-3): 55-58 [in Croat].
"Trostruka obljetnica svjetske knjizevnosti: Goethe, Puskin, Nabokov" [The Triple Anniversary of World Literature: Goethe, Pushkin, Nabokov], ibid. 61-64 [in Croat].
[with Aleksandr Ospovat] "Kamen' very: Tiuchev, Gogol' i Madel'shtam" [The Rock of Faith: Tiutchev, Gogol', and Mandelstam]. In: Tiutchevskii Sbornik. II. Tartu, 1999. 48-55 [in Russian, with an English summary].
[with M. L. Gasparov] "O. Mandel'shtam. «Sumerki svobody»: opyt akademicheskogo kommentariia" [Osip Mandelstam. "Twilight of Freedom." A Commentary], Izvestiia AN. Seriia literatury i iazyka [Bulletin of the Section of Language and Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences], Vol. 58 (1999), No. 5-6, pp. 3-9 [in Russian, with an English summary].
"K.F. Taranovskii i «raskrytie podteksta» v filologii" [Kiril Taranovsky and Subtextual Explication in Philology]. In: Kiril Taranovskii. O poèzii i poètike. Ed. M. L. Gasparov. Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul'tury, 2000, pp. 420-425 [in Russian].
"Nabokov and Goethe." Chapter 16 in: Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia. Ed. G. Barabtarlo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000, pp. 241-251.
"Nine Notes to The Gift," The Nabokovian, No. 44 (Spring 2000), pp. 20-26.
"Sorevnovatel'nost', antiparodiia, intertekstual'nost' i kommentarii" [Emulation, Anti-Parody, Intertextuality, and Annotation], Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, No. 42 (Moscow, 2000), pp. 255-261.
"Detskaia literatura i sotsialisticheskii realizm" [Children's Literature and Socialist Realism]. In: Sotsrealisticheskii kanon. Eds. H. Günter and E. Dobrenko. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii Proekt, 2000, pp. 1027-1038 [in Russian].
"Personazhi-nasekomye u Oleinikova i obèriutov" [Insect Characters in the Verse of Oleinikov and the Oberiu Poets], Zvezda, No. 8 (St. Petersburg, 2000), pp. 192-199 [in Russian].
"Poetry and Grammar in the Table of Contents of 'The Captain's Daughter'." Elementa, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2000):331-339.
"Iz zametok k 'Polnomu sobraniiu sochinenii' Aleksandra Bloka" [Selected Footnotes to the New Complete Critical Edition of Aleksandr Blok's Collected Works], Blokovskii sbornik XV: Russkii simvolizm v literaturnom kontekste rubezha XIX-XX vv. (Tartu, 2000):196-202 [in Russian, with an English summary].
"Emulation, Anti-Parody, Intertextuality, and Annotation," Nabokov Studies, Vol. 5 (1998/1999) [2000]: 63-70.
"Odin raz v zhizni. Eizenshtein i ego kollegi kak literaturnye prototipy," Kinovedcheskie zapiski 48 (Moscow, 2000): 228-233 [translated by Ol'ga Goncharenko from the original English "Once in a Lifetime: Sergei Eisenstein and his Associates as Literary Prototypes," to be published in the collection Eisenstein at 100 (Rutgers UP)].
"An Explication of Annenskii's "Square Windows"," Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 45 (2000): 27-34.
"Leksicheskii povtor, podtekst i smysl v poetike Mandel'shtama," Sokhrani moiu rech', Vol. 3, Pt. 1 (Moscow: RGGU, 2000): 242-264.
"The Triple Anniversary of World Literature: Goethe, Pushkin, Nabokov," Russica Romana Vol. VI, 1999 (Rome, 2001): 255-261.
"Once in a Lifetime: Eisenstein and his Associates as Literary Prototypes in a Novel by Lev Kassil." In: Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration. Eds. Al LaValley and Barry P. Scherr. new Branswick and London: Rutgers UP, 2001, pp. 129-135.
Literary and Biographical Essays Published in the Column "Iz goroda Enn" ("From the Town of Ann") in alternate issues of the monthly Zvezda (St. Petersburg):
"Kontrapunkt (O zapisnykh knizhkakh Il'i Il'fa)" [Counterpoint (On the Notebooks of Ilya Ilf)], Zvezda 3 (March 2001): 219-223.
"Ideal (O stikhotvorenii Annenskogo 'Kvadratnye okoshki')" [The Ideal (On 'The Square Windows' by Annensky)], Zvezda 5 (May 2001): 226-232.
"Berberova (1901-2001)," Zvezda 7 (July 2001): 213-220.
'"Molv'" (K shestidesiatilietiiu gibeli Mariny Tsvetaevoi)' ["The Idiom" (60 years after the death of Marina Tsvetaeva)], Zvezda 9 (September 2001).
"Oborvysh" ["The Ragamuffin"], Zvezda 11 (November 2001).
"Véra", Zvezda 1 (January 2002).
Major Interviews:
Omri Ronen: "Za menia vstupilsia narod". Roman s filologiei [Omry Ronen: "The People Interceded for Me." A Love Affair with Philology], Nezavisimaia gazeta/Ex libris (Moscow), 21 January 1999, pp. 9-12 (interview conducted by G. Amelin).
Sovremennik [A Contemporary], Den' za dnem (Tallinn), 22 October 1999 (interview conducted by V. Vasil'kova).
Omri Ronen: "Nado znat', chto znachit eta muzyka" [Omry Ronen: "One Must Know What This Music Means"], Novaia Russkaia Kniga #3 (4) (St. Petersburg, 2000), pp. 3-7 (interview conducted by I. Svetlikova and A Blumbaum).
"Omry". Interview conducted by N. Grigor'eva, Zvezda 10 (St. Petersburg, 2000): 231-232.
"Itogi i perspektivy". Otvety na voprosy zhurnala 'Zvezda' ["Results and Perspectives". Answers to Zvezda's Questionnaire]. Zvezda 1 (January 2001): 222-224.
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