BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

Translations of Alexander Veselovsky’s work (except translations published in his lifetime)

Into English:

• A. N. Veselovsky, «On the Methods and Aims of Literary History as a Science» (1870), Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 16 (1967) 33-42; translation by Harry Weber. Alternative translation by Boris Maslov.

• A. N. Veselovskii, «“Istoricheskaia poetika (“A Historical Poetics”) Chapter 1, Section 8», New Literary History 32 (2001) 409-428; translation by Ian M. Helfant.

• A. N. Veselovsky, «Envisioning World Literature in 1863: From the Reports on a Mission Abroad», PMLA 128.2 (2013) 439-451; translation by Jennifer Flaherty, edited by Boris Maslov.

• A. N. Veselovsky, «From the Introduction to Historical Poetics: Questions and Answers» (1894), in Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, eds. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics; translated and edited by Boris Maslov. P. 39-64.

• A. N. Veselovsky, «The Age of Sensibility» (Chapter 1 of V.A. Zhukovsky: The Poetry of the Sentiment and of the “Heart’s Imagination”, 1904), in Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov, eds. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics; translated and edited by Boris Maslov; verse translations by Lev Blumenfeld. P. 165-171.

Into Italian:

• Alexandr N. Veselovskij, Poetica storica, translated and annotated by Claudia Giustini, Rome 1981.

Into German:

• Aleksandr Veselovskij, "Poetik der Sujets" (Auszug aus Poetik der Sujets, ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert von Matthias Aumüller), Russische Proto-Narratologie: Tekste in kommentierten Übersetztungen, hrsg. von Wolf Schmid. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. S.1-13.

Secondary literature on Alexander Veselovsky’s work in languages other than Russian:

In English:

• Viktor M. Zhirmunsky, “On the Study of Comparative Literature,” Oxford Slavonic Papers 13 (1967) 1-13.

• Victor Erlich, Russian Formalism: History – Doctrine, The Hague 1969, 26-32.

• Dionýz Ďurišin, Theory of Literary Comparatistics, Bratislava 1984, 28-40.

• Igor Shaitanov, «Aleksandr Veselovskii’s Historical Poetics: Genre in Historical Poetics», New Literary History 32 (2001) 429-443.

• Andy Byford, “The Rhetoric of Alexander Veselovskii’s ‘Historical Poetics’ and the Autonomy of Academic Literary Studies in Late Imperial Russia,” Slavonica 11.2 (2005) 115-132.

• Boris Maslov, “Comparative Literature and Revolution, or the Many Arts of (Mis)reading Alexander Veselovsky, ”  Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature 2008 [2013] 2: 101-129. 

• Boris Maslov, “Metapragmatics, Toposforschung, Marxist Stylistics: Three Extensions of Veselovsky’s Historical Poetics.” In Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics, ed. I. Kliger and B. Maslov, 128-162. New York: Fordham UP, 2016. 

In Italian:

• Viktor  Žirmunskij, “La poetica storica di A. N. Veselovskij” (1940), in Alexandr N. Veselovskij, Poetica storica, Roma 1981, 9-51.

• Valentina Rossi, “La Poetica storica di A. N. Veselovskij dal 1940 al 1959. La storia delle edizioni di un libro mai scritto,” Annali della scuola normale superiore di Pisa. Classe di lettere e filosofia. Ser. III. Vol. XX, 1 (1990) 319-361.

• G. B. Bronzini, “Matrice romantica e sviluppi antropologici della ‘poetica storica’ di A.N.Veselovskij,” La Ricerca Folklorica 33 (1996) 3-10.

• Renzo Rabboni, “Per una bibliografia italiana di A. N. Veselovskij: gli studi sulla letteratura e sul folclore,” Schede umanistiche 16.1 (2002), 7-88.

• Sergio Mazzanti, “La ricezione di Aleksandr N. Veselovskij in Italia,”  Ricerche slavistiche 11 [57] (2013): 369-425.

In French:

• Victor Girmounsky, «Les courants littéraires en tant que phénomènes internationaux», in N. Banašević (ed.), Actes du Ve Congrès de l’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Belgrade 1967, 3-21.

• Michel Espagne, “Les sources allemandes des poétiques psychologiques en Russie du XIXe siècle: Veselovski, Buslaev, Jirmounski,” Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines 21.2 (2009) 55-67.

Bibliographies of Veselovsky’s work (in Russian):

• Ukazatel’ k nauchnym trudam Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Veselovskago, 1859-1895, St. Petersburg 1896. Download from Google Books.

• «Spisok trudov akademika A. N. Veselovskogo: 1859-1906», in Pamiati akademika Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Veselovskogo: po sluchaiu desiatiletiia so dnia ego smerti (1906-1916), Petrograd 1921, 1-68 (special pagination).

• A. N. Veselovskii, Izbrannoe: Na puti k istoricheskoi poetike, ed. Igor Shaitanov, Moscow 2010, 654-672 (includes literature on Veselovsky).

Veselovsky’s Student Reports from Abroad (Iz otchetov o zagranichnykh komandirovkakh)

[Scanned Russian originals below; all publications from Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia]

1863:

• no.117, February, otd. 2, pp. 152-160

• no. 118, May, pp. 216-223

• no. 119, September, otd. 2, pp. 440-448

• no. 120, December, pp. 557-560

1864:

• no.121, March, pp. 395-401

Russian criticism on Veselovsky from the 1940s (scanned documents below)

• Алексеев, М. П. К фрагментам “Поэтики сюжетов”  А. Н. Веселовского // Уч. зап. ЛГУ . Сер. фил. наук. Вып.  8. 1941. С. 17-29.

• Кирпотин, В. О низкопоклонстве перед капиталистическим Западом, об Александре Веселовском, о его последователях и о самом главном // Октябрь. 1948. № 1. С. 3-27.

• Шишмарев, В. Ф. Александр Веселовский и русская литература. Ленинград: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1946.

• Шкловский, В. Александр Веселовский — историк и теоретик // Октябрь. 1947. № 12 . С. 174-182.