Russian writers on Russian writers / [electronic resource] edited by Faith Wigzell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writers on writers : introductory essay / Robin Aizlewood and Faith Wigzell -- Familiar solidarity and squabbling : Russia's eighteenth-century writers / W. Gareth Jones -- Fet on Tiutchev / Robin Aizlewood -- Chekhov and Merezhkovskii / Stephen le Fleming -- Shestov on Chekhov / Malcolm Jones -- Gumilev's reviews of Viacheslav Ivanov's Cor Ardens : criticism as a tool in the polemics of literary succession / Pamela Davidson -- Missing links : Russian women writers as critics of women writers / Catriona Kelly -- Marina Tsvetaeva as literary critic and critic of literary critics / Sibelan Forrester -- Air. Suffocation. Muteness : Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Pasternak and Tsvetaeva / Anatoly Naiman -- Joseph Brodsky on Marina Tsvetaeva / Henry Gifford -- Nabokov and Dostoevskii : aesthetic demystification / Nora Buhks -- The myth of the poet and the poet of the myth : Russian poets on Brodsky / Valentina Polukhina -- Trifonov on Dostoevskii / David Gillespie -- Zinovév on Chekhov / Michael Kirkwood.