Literature

  • Tjutchev: Euphony and Beyond

    Ginzburg, Elizabeth A.

    Tjutchev: Euphony and Beyond

    Just as the key to Fedor Tjutchev’s life is his poetry, the key to his euphonious lyrics is sound. Tjutchev’s poetry demonstrates how he greatly extended the field of poetic sound form, much beyond the accomplishments of his...

    $34.95
  • Vasily Rozanov and the Body of Russian Literature

    Mondry, Henrietta

    Vasily Rozanov and the Body of Russian Literature

    This book is the first interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the most original and controversial turn-of-the-century Russian writer and thinker, Vasily Rozanov. Once described as the Russian Freud, Rozanov developed a unique methodology for...

    $28.95
  • Up the Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry

    Volkova & Cloutier

    Up the Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry

    Up the Devil's Back: An Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry presents 65 selected Czech poets in English translation, together with their biographies. Co-translated and edited by Bronislava Volková (Professor of Czech literature, Comparative...

    $39.95
  • Two Words to the Wise

    Rothstein, Robert

    Two Words to the Wise

    Since July 2004 Robert Rothstein has been writing about Polish language, literature and folklore for the Boston-based biweekly Biały Orzeł/White Eagle. Inspired by the calender, by items in the Polish press, by his experience learning and teaching...

    $32.95
  • Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance

    Miletich, John

    Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance

    Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology is a revised and expanded edition of The Lute and the Lattice: Croatian Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries, first published in The Bridge (Zagreb), volume 25 (1971). The...

    $24.95
  • Mapping the Feminine

    Hoogenboom et al.

    Mapping the Feminine

    From the Introduction: This volume honors the extraordinary life, path-breaking career, and pioneering scholarship of a truly modest woman—Professor Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, Barnard College emerita. Born into the old noble families of the...

    $34.95
  • Village Values

    Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie

    Village Values

    From the introduction: The rituals of wedding, delivery, and funeral provide us with an insight into how multiple strains of Russian culture from the October Revolution to the present have managed to coexist and evolve. All three rituals exhibit traces...

    $34.95
  • Polish Literature from 1918-2000 - Hardcover

    Mikos, Michael J.

    Polish Literature from 1918-2000 - Hardcover

    This double volume covers the periods from 1918 to 1939 and from 1945 to 2000 and constitutes the sixth and last part of the history and anthology of Polish literature from its beginnings to the year 2000. The task of making a comprehensive selection of...

    $49.95
  • Uncensored?

    Graham & Mesropova

    Uncensored?

    Uncensored? Reinventing Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia is a wide-ranging scholarly analysis of humor and satire in Russia during the regimes of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. The volume brings together an international group of emerging...

    $32.95
  • День без вранья: A Day Without Lying

    Comer, William

    День без вранья: A Day Without Lying

    День без вранья (A Day without Lying) draws readers into the everyday existence of a twenty-something Muscovite who has decided to live a single day without telling any lies. Yet the events of this day - from his unruly French class to the evening...

    $27.95
  • Routes of Passage

    Spektor & Byron

    Routes of Passage

    Vladimir Makanin impels the Russian tradition at once in two established directions: back to its sympathy for the "little people" in al their social exigencies and forward into a new life fraught with doubt, bad memories (and bad teeth), and yet the...

    $29.95
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