Olga Meerson
Title
Professor
Department
Department of Slavic Languages
Publications
Publications
Books
- Olga Meerson. Personalism as Poetics: the World of Fiction through Its Inhabitants’ Eyes / Personalizm kak poetika. Literaturnyj mir glazami ego obitatelej. St. Petersburg, Russia: Pushkinskij dom, 2009.
- Andrey Platonov, Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson, trans.. The Foundation Pit. New York City: New York Review Books, 2009.
- Olga Meerson. A Free Thing: the Poetics of Re-Familiarization in Andrei Platonov’s Work, in Russian. Oakland, CA : Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1997. Republished by Novosibirsk, Russia: Nauka, 2000.
- Olga Meerson. Dostoevsky’s Taboos. Dresden, Germany: Dresden University Press/ The Harriman Institute Series, Columbia U, 1998.
- Charles Homer Giblin, S.J., Olga Meerson, Translator into Russian. Apokalipsis: Otkrytaia kniga prorochestva (The Open Book of Revelation). Paris-Moscow: Symbol (Alexander Mossine, Ed.), 1994.
Articles in journals
- Olga Meerson. "Kotlovan/ The Foundation Pit:: Translation Failures as Interpretation Clues." Ulbandus Review 14 (2011).
- Olga Meerson, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, trans. . "The Liturgical Heritage of Father Alexander Schmemann." St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 53.2-3 (2009): 353-368.
- Olga Meerson. "Liturgicheskoe nasledie prot. Aleksandra Shmemana." Novaia Evropa, Fr. Romano Scalfi, Giovannna Parravicini, eds. # 20.2008 (2008): 108-119.
- Olga Meerson. "Intertext as Exoskeleton: the Case of Mme. du Barry and ’La dame aux camelias’ in The Idiot." Dostoevskij i mirovaia kul’tura / Dostoevsky and World Culture 23 (2007): 85-106.
- Olga Meerson, Irina Mikaelian. "Why Hermann Came to the Funeral of the Countess: the Verb Imet’ and Its Two Connotations in Russian." Izvestiia OLIa (The Journal of the Academy of Sciences Division of Language and Literature), Moscow, Russia Dec..2003 (2003).
- Olga Meerson. "Andrei Platonov’s Re-familiarization." Essays in Poetics. The Journal of the British Neo-Formalist Circle. 26.2001 (2001): 21-37.
- Olga Meerson. "Bibleiskie interteksty u Dostoevskogo. Koshchunstvo ili apofaticheskoe blagochestie? (Biblical Subtexts in Dostoevsky: Blasphemy or Apophatic Piety?)." Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul’tura (Dostoevsky and World Culture) 12.1999 (1999): 39-51.
- Olga Meerson. "Rhymes, Quasi-Rhymes, and Ghosts of Rhymes in Pushkin’s ’Mozart and Salieri’." Gumanitarnye nauki v Sibiri (The Humanities in Siberia) 4.1999 (1999).
- Olga Meerson. "Ivolgin and Holbein: : Non-Christ Risen vs. Christ Non-Risen." Slavic and East European Journal 39.2 (1995): 200-213.
- Olga Meerson. "Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman: An Apophatic Cartography of Hell ." The First Hour, Journal of Patristic Society 5.1994 (1994): 3-11.
- Olga Meerson. "Literary Genesis of a Justification for Killing: From Posterity to Forefathers." Tolstoy Studies Journal VII.1994 (1994).
- Olga Meerson. "Old Testament Lamentation in the Underground Man’s Monologue: A Refutation of the Existentialist Reading of Notes from the Underground." Slavic and East European Journal 36.3 (1992): 317-322.
Articles in books
- Olga Meerson. ""Theorizing vs. Teaching Literary Theory: What Is to Be Done with Crime and Punishment?" ." Festschrift in Honor of Robert L. Belknap. Ed. Deborah Martinsen, Lisa Knapp, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman. Evanstown: Northwestern U.P., 2012.
- Olga Meerson. "Biblejskie i liturgicheskie podtekstry v ’Kotlovane’ kak motivirovka povedeniia geroev i tona rasskazchika." Diesseits und jenseits der Utopien. Andrej Platonov - ein Autor zwischen allen Stühlen. Konferenz (9.10.-11.10.2008) . Ed. HANSEN-LÖVE, Aage (Hrsg.). München - Berlin: Verlag Otto Sagner / Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Band 63, 2009: 71-83
- Olga Meerson. "Dostoevsky and Gogol: More on the Theory of Parody. Vij and Krotkaia--the Same Beauty in the Coffin.." Sub specie tolerantiae: In Memoriam Vladimir Artemovich Tunimanov. Ed. Anna Grodetskaia. St. Petersburg: Nauka: Institute of Russian Literature, Pushkinskij Dom, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008.
- Olga Meerson. "Chetvertyi brat ili kozel otpushcheniia ex machina?" / "The Fourth Brother or a Scapegoat Ex Machina?." Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo “Brat’ia Karamazovy. Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia/ Dostoevsky’s Novel The Brothers Karamazov: the Contemporary State of Research. Ed. T.A. Kasatkina. Moscow, Russia: Nauka, 2007: 565-604
- Olga Meerson. "Nabokov-Apologet: Zashchita Luzhina ili zashchita Dostoevskogo / Nabokov-the Apologist: Luzhin’s defense or Dostoevsky’s?." Dostoevsky and 20th Century / Dostoevskij i XX vek. Ed. V.A. Viktorovich, A.G. Gacheva, T.A. Kasatkina, Olga Meerson, et al. Moscow: Institute of World Literature Publishing / Institut Mirovoj Literatury, 2007: 358-381
- Olga Meerson. "Zhenikhi Dostoevskogo v ‘Zashchite Luzhina’ Nabokova (Dostoevsky’s Bridegrooms in Nabokov’s Defense)." Dostoevskij I XX-j vek / Dostoevsky and the 20th Century. Ed. Tatiana Kasatkina, Karen Stepanian. Moscow: The Dostoevsky Committee, IMLI (Institute of World Literature), 2007.
- William Peter Van Den Bercken (Editor), Jonathan Sutton (Editor), Very Rev. Michael A. Meerson, Olga Meerson et al.. "Tropes in the church Slavonic liturgy and the ways Russian speakers perceive them." Aesthetics As a Religious Factor in Eastern And Western Christianity: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Utrecht Christian Studies) (Early Christian Studies. Ed. William Peter Van Den Bercken (Editor), Jonathan Sutton (Editor). Utrecht, Holland: Peeters Publishing, 2006: 167-178
- Olga Meerson. "Moscow, Who Are You? Khlebnikov and Platonov." Tvorchestvo Andreia Platonova. Issledovaniia i materialy. Vol.3 . Ed. Elena Kolesnikova et al.. St. Petersburg, Russia: Nauka, Institute of Russian Literature, Pushkinskij Dom, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004: 205-213
- Olga Meerson. "How Dostoevsky Inscribes ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ In a Killer’s Heart : The Decalogue Taboo Internalized; The It Of ‘It’." Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers , 2004.
- Olga Meerson. "Velimir Xlebnikov’s ‘Moskva, ty kto?’ and Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow: Identical Questions, with No Answers." Andrei Platonov’s Oeuvre / Tvorchestvo Andreia Platonova (Intertexts), vol. 3. Ed. Elena Kolesnikova. St. Petersburg: Institute of Russian Literature, The Pushkin House / Pushkinskij dom, 2004: 205-213
- Olga Meerson. "Khristos ili Kniaz’-Khristos? Svidetel’stvo generala Ivolgina. (Christ or Prince-Christ? General Ivolgin’s Testimony)." Idiot: Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia. /The Idiot: Contemporary Research. Ed. Tatiana Kasatkina, Karen Stepanian . Moscow: The IMLI Committee on Dostoevsky, 2001.
- Olga Meerson. "The Power of Revelations: Unsealing Subtexts in Nikolai Leskov’s ’The Sealed Angel.’." Die Wirklichkeit der Kunst und das Abenteuer der Interpretation: Festschrift for Horst Jürgen Gerigk. Ed. Klaus Manger. Heidelberg : Universitaetsverlag, Klaus Manger, 1999: 231-246
Articles in conference proceedings
- Olga Meerson. "Gogol’s Vij and Dostoevsky’s Krotkaia: Dead Souls vs. Poor (Women)Folk. More on the Theory of Parody.." International Dostoevsky Society 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Ed. Kroo Katalin, IDS Board, et al.. Budapest, Hungary: IDS, 2010.
- Olga Meerson. "Theorizing vs. Teaching Literary Theory: What Is to Be Done with Crime and Punishment?." Formulations: Teaching Nineteenth–Century Russian Literature A Celebration of the Teaching and Scholarship of Robert Belknap. Ed. Liza Knapp, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman. New York: Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2010.
- Olga Meerson . "Psalm 50/51: vs. 8/6: and Psalm Inscriptions: The Hebrew Mind-Set versus The Greek One." The Moscow Conference on Commentary: History and Theory, Classical and Modern. Ed. Julia Ivanova. Moscow: Russian State University of the Humanities and Moscow H. School of Economics Conf. on Commentary, 2007.
- Olga Meerson. "Tropes in Orthodox Liturgical Poetics and Their Perception by the Russian Ear." AESTHETICS AS A RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY. Ed. William van den Bercken, Jonathan Sutton. Utrecht, Holland: Leuven ; Paris ; Dudley, Mass. : Peeters, 2005.
Edited books
- Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, Eric Naiman, transl., ed. Soul and Other Stories, by Andrey Platonov. New York: NYRB (New York Review of Books), 2007.
- Andrey Platonov (the author), Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson (translators), ed. Soul. London, UK: The Harvill Press, 2003.
Book reviews
- Tomas Venclova (Olga Meerson). " Sobesedniki na piru ." Slavic and East European Journal 423.1999 (1999).
- Andrei Arkhipov (Olga Meerson). "On the Other Side of the Sambation: Studies in Russo-Hebrew Cultural and Linguistic Contacts in 10th-17th CC ." Slavic and East European Journal 41.1997 (1997): 148-150.
- Robin Feuer Miller (Olga Meerson). " The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel ." Slavic and East-European Journal 38.1994 (1994): 268-270.