Beaudoin (Russian language and literature, U. of Denver) offers a semiotic investigation of the verse tales by which Evgenij Baratynskij (1800-44) and Aleksander Pushkin (1799-1837) intended to elevate literature to a philosophical world view. He finds particular importance in the linking of the masculine narrator's voice with the feminine ideal omnipresent in such Romantic poems. The quotations are in both Russian and English. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
