Milica Banjanin

Titles

Professor, Russian

Titles

Comparative Literature

Articles
"Where Are The Street Lights Running To?': The Poetics of Street Lights in Russian Modernism." New Zealand Slavonic Journal 38 (2004-2005): 71-91. A study of the relations between light, art, and technology in Russian Modernism.

"Listening: The Poetics of Street Sounds in Russian Modernism." Slavic Almanach 10.1 (2004): 63-80. An examination of the sounds of St. Petersburg streets at the beginning of 20th century, as reflected in Russian Modernist poetry and fiction.

"Echoes of the Commedia dell'arte in the Works of Blok: Transformations of an Image." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies. 4.1-2 (1990): 1-20. Elucidates Blok's use of the commedia dell'arte and the related iamges of masks, masquerade balls, and puppet-shows [balagan].

"Nature and the City in the Works of Elena Guro." Slavic and East European Journal. 30.2 (Summer 1986): 230-247. An exploration of Guro's poetic universe through the two central themes of her writing--nature and the city--as they appear in her unpublished, archival materials, and in her published work.