his book about 'Anna Karenina'
The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) has awarded its fifth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures to Vladimir E. Alexandrov, the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, for his book "Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina."
The $2,000 prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages, including Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene and Ukrainian.
In its citation for the "Limits to Interpretation," which was published by the University of Wisconsin Press, the selection committee said:
"Vladimir E. Alexandrov has written a work that is refreshingly original precisely because it does not insist on its originality. ... The range of meanings in 'Anna Karenina' is governed by what Alexandrov calls 'hermeneutic indices' -- moments in the text that, without any a priori prodding, draw attention to themselves through their metalingual functioning. Gradually, inductively, from 'the bottom up,' a map of more and less probable readings emerges. Alexandrov teaches us how Tolstoy's novel asks to be read: the literary text itself makes possible and necessary its multiple and even conflicting interpretations."
Alexandrov, who is chair of the Slavic department, is also the author of "Andrei Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction" and "Nabokov's Otherworld." He was editor of "The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov" and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. He was associate editor of the Russian Review (19821986) and served on the editorial board of Nabokov Studies and Yale Russian and East European Publications. He serves on the advisory council of the Slavic and East European Journal. Alexandrov is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The MLA, established in 1883, is the largest and one of the oldest American learned societies in the humanities. It exists to advance literary and linguistic studies. The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures was presented for the first time in 1995. Previous winners of the award include Professor Alexander M. Schenker of Yale (1997).
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