David Bethea

BOOKS & EDITIONS

• The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (Selected Essays) (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2009)

• General Editor, Sochineniia Pushkina/The Works of Pushkin (an annotated edition) (Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2006-)

• Editor, The Pushkin Handbook (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)

• Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998)

• Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)

• Editor, Puškin Today (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993)

• The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989, 1991)

• Khodasevich: His Life and Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983, 1986)

RECENT ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Taboo and the Family Romance in The Captain's Daughter," chapter in Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations, ed. Alyssa Dinega Gillespie (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), 321-349.

• "Exile and Literature" (with S. Frank), chapter for Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, eds. Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 195-213.

• "Great Art Should Slow Us Down: 'Participative Thinking' in the World and as the World of Caryl Emerson," introduction to Caryl Emerson, All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010), xiii-xxv.

• "The Nature of Evil in Master and Margarita" (with Sergei Davydov), for the collection Das Böse in der russichen Kultur / Evil in Russian Culture, ed. Bodo Zelinsky (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2008), 205-217.