Dr Roger Keys, Lecturer
Contact Details
rjk1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462952
Office: Quad 43
Research and Teaching
My research focuses principally on analysis of the "experimental" fictional techniques developed by writers belonging to the Russian Symbolist movement in the early decades of the twentieth century. My main long-term research plan is to develop further the typological classification of Russian modernist fiction begun in my book, The Reluctant Modernist: Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914 (Clarendon Press, 1996). To this end I am examining the relationship between narrator and character discourse in the longer fiction of two major Russian Symbolist writers, Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) and Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957). I am also preparing articles on the Russian-American Imagist poet, prose-writer and translator, John Cournos (1862-1927), an important intermediary figure between the Russian and western literary traditions. I teach courses in Russian and Soviet literature of the twentieth century, as well as translation from and into Russian, at all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
PhD Supervision
Publications
Aleksei Remizov's
Prud
("The Mere"). The Final Text of the Novel
Keys, R. J.
2004
Berkeley Slavic Specialties
.
389 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
The Reluctant Modernist: Andrei Belyi and the Development of Russian Fiction, 1902-1914
Keys, R. J.
1996
Clarendon Press
.
265 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Nezamechennyi simvolist: U.B. Ieits i Rossiia
Keys, R. J.
2009
In:
Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii: sbornik v chest 60-letiia Aleksandra Vasilevicha Lavrova.
Bagno, V., Malmstad, D. & Malikova, M. (eds.).
Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie
,
p. 303-316.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
The Reception of the Work of W.B. Yeats in Russia and Countries of the Former USSR
Keys, R. J.
2006
In:
The Reception of W.B. Yeats in Europe.
Jochum, K. P. (ed.).
Continuum
,
p. 135-149.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Dva pis´ma Tomasa Manna k Ivanu Buninu: K istorii literaturnykh otnoshenii
Keys, R. J.
2002
In:
S dvukh beregov: Russkaia literatura v Rossii i za rubezhom.
Davies, R. & Keldysh, V. A. (eds.).
IMLI, RAN (Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences)
,
p. 370-386.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
New Light on Remizov's First Novel,
Prud
(The Mere): Selected Correspondence of A.M. Remizov, E.A. Liatskii, M.L. Slonim, F.S. Mansvetov, and the 'Plamia' Publishing House
Keys, R. J.
Apr-2004
In :
Slavonica
.
10
,
1
,
p. 61-88.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Narratorial Structure and Semantic Authority in the Short Stories of Fedor Sologub
Keys, R. J.
Apr-2002
In :
Slavonica
.
8
,
1
,
p. 7-19.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Ivan Bunin and Thomas Mann (The works of Thomas Mann translated into Russian)
Keys, R. J.
Oct-2000
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
36
,
p. 357-367.
11 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Ivan Bunin and Thomas Mann.
Keys, R. J.
2000
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
31
,
No. 4
,
p. 357-67.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Realists and Idealists. The Case of Viacheslav Ivanov versus Andrei Belyi.
Keys, R. J.
1994
In :
Slavonica
.
1
,
2
,
p. 7-19.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Mining for jewels. Evgenii Zamyatin and the literary stylization of Rus'. By Philip Cavendish
Keys, R. J.
Jul-2002
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
80
,
3
,
p. 524-525.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
The Silver Dove. Andrey Bely. (Translated by John Elsworth)
Keys, R. J.
Jul-2002
In :
Slavonic and East European Review
.
80
,
3
,
p. 522-524.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Book/Film/Article review
Summer in Baden-Baden: From the Life of Dostoyevsky (with an introduction by Susan Sontag)
Tsypkin, L. , Keys, A. &
Keys, R. J.
2001
New Directions Publishing
Research output
:
Other contribution
Russian-Western literary relations in the twentieth century: Introduction
Keys, R. J.
Oct-2000
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
36
,
p. 337-339.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Editorial