Richard Sheldon

Name: Richard Sheldon (e-mail)
Position: Emeritus Professor of Russian
Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan, J.D., University of Michigan
Address:

HB 6085

Hanover, NH 03755-1801

Courses Taught

• Chekhov
• Solzhenitsyn
• Tolstoy
• Modern Russian Literature
• Russian Literature of the Golden Age
• Nabokov

Articles

• (With Barry Scherr), "Westward Flows the Don: The Translation and the Text," The Slavic and East European Journal, spring, 1998.
• "Problems in the English Translation of Anna Karenina," Essays in the Art and Theory of Translation, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
• "The Itinerary of Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey," forthcoming in Proceedings of the Norwich Conference, 1994.
• Introduction to the second edition of In Stalin's Time, by Vera Dunham, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1990.
• "The Transformations of Babi Yar," in Soviet Society and Culture, Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1988.
• "Cathartic Disillusionment in The Three Sisters," in Russian Literature and American Critics, Ann Arbor: Ardis Press 1984.
• "The Legacy of Mikhail Sholokhov, 1905 - 1984," in The Slavic Review,summer, 1984.
• "Shklovsky and Mandelstam," in Russian and Slavic Literature, Columbus, Slavica Publishers, 1976.
• "Viktor Shklovsky and the Device of Ostensible Surrender," Slavic Review, March, 1975.
• "The Formalist Poetics of Viktor Shklovsky," Russian Literature Tri-Quarterly, 2, winter, 1972.
• "Shklovsky, Gorky and the Serapion Brothers," The Slavic and East European Journal, spring, 1968.

Books

• Soviet Society and Culture, co-edited with Terry Thompson, Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1988.
• Third Factory, by Viktor Shklovsky, Ann Arbor: Ardis Press, 1977 (trans., ed., intro.).
• Viktor Shklovsky: An International Bibliography of Works by and about Him, Ann Arbor: Ardis Press, 1977 (comp.).
• Zoo, or Letters Not about Love, by Viktor Shklovsky, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971 (trans., ed.,into.).
• A Sentimental Journey, by Viktor Shklovsky, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970; 2nd ed. rev., 1984 (trans., ed., intro.).