Kozlovski, Shostakovich's Preface and Russian Literary Criticism - or how different forms of chuzhoe slovo such as skaz and polygenetic quotation, as well as some other concepts that were developed by

"The thesis is an analysis of Dmitri Shostakovich's Predislovie k polnomu sobraniju moih sochinenij I kratkoe razmyshlenie po povodu etogo predislovija op. 123 using a methodological framework taken from writings of Russian literary critics of the early 20th century and their followers. In the first chapter several key notions are introduced and contextualised – namely, polygenetic quotation, skaz and ambiguity. The claim is stated, that Preface could be analysed in the similar way to Boris...