1. The dynamics of the second birth. Text Counter Text. Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.

2. Writing in the wilderness: on Brodskii and a sonnet. Slavic and East European Journal, 30 (1986), 3, 404-419; revised version in "Text Counter Text" Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.

3. Rereading Gogol's miswritten book: notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends, in Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word, ed. by S. Fusso and P. Meyer, Evanston, Illinois: Nothwestern University Press, 1992: 172-84, and in "Text Counter Text" Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.

4. The Morphology and Historical Roots of L. N. Tolstoy's "After the Ball" (Paganism and Christianity); revised Engl. version in "Text Counter Text". Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.

5. Limonov at literary Olympics (On his short story "The Belle Who Had Inspired the Poet")]. expanded Engl. version in "Text Counter Text". Rereadings in Russian Literary History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (cloth), 1995 (paper). 370 pp.