Poetics of Prose; Contents; A Poetics Introduction, Mostly; Bibliography; The Psychoanalytic Poetics of Weltschmerz in Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Times; Bibliography; The Poetics of Dramatic Prose in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; Bibliography; The Poetics of the Quest in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog"; First Movement; Second Movement; Third Movement; Fourth Movement; Bibliography; The Poetics of Stagecraft and Dialogue in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Cherry Orchard Scheme; Act I; Act II; Act III; Act IV; Bibliography; The Architectonics of Poetic Prose in Camus's The Stranger.