Literature

O’Neil et al.

Poetics. Self, Place

This Festschrift is presented as a mark of esteem and appreciation to Anna Lisa Crone in recognition of her considerable contributions to Slavic Studies as a scholar, teacher, dissertation adviser, and colleague. In three books and numerous articles,...

Finke & de Sherbinin

Chekhov the Immigrant

No major Russian author has been more thoroughly translated into American culture than the master of the short story, playwright, and socially committed physician Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). Chekhov’s writings and his person have had an...

Bloshteyn, Maria

Dress Rehearsal: A Story in Four Acts and Five Chapters

Alexander Galich, born Alexander Arkadievich Ginzburg in 1918 ("Galich" is a literary pseudoym he assumed in 1947), is best known as the cult author of poem-songs surreptitiosly disseminated throughout the Soviet Union in the millions as part of the...

Goscilo/Holmgren

Poles Apart

The seven related articles in this volume of Indiana Slavic Studies doubly counter the dominant focus in Polish Studies scholarship on "Literature penned by Great Men." This anthology turns the spotlight elsewhere—on the careers, works, and...

Perkowski, Jan

Vampire Lore

This omnibus volume collects under a single cover the entire oeuvre of writings by Jan Louis Perkowski on the vampire theme in mythology and folklore, including his three previously published monographs (Vampires, Dwarves, and Witches Among the Ontario...

Cooper & Mladenov

Anthology of Bulgarian Literature

Over the centuries Bulgaria has been many things: a brilliant medieval empire (even two!), an abject, all-but-forgotten Ottoman province, a struggling kingdom, a docile satellite and now a democratic member of NATO ad a new member in the European Union...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Literature from 1864-1918 Realism and Young Poland. An Anthology

The penultimate volume in Professor Michael Mikos's award-winning multi-volume survey of Polish literature in translation is devoted to two separate periods: Realism and "Young Poland", together spanning the years from 1865-1918. The annotated...

Sternstein, Malynne M.

The Will to Chance: Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde from Poetism to Surrealism

The Will to Chance: Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde from Poetism to Surrealism is the first monograph study on the Czech avant-garde that positions the Czech movements of poetism and surrealism at the radical center of debates...

Mihailovich & Mikasinovich

Anthology of Serbian Literature

Serbian literature is a branch of the large tree that grew on the rocky and often bloody Balkan Peninsula during the last millennium. Its initial impulse came from the introduction of Christianity in the ninth century among the pagan Slavic tribes, which...

Goy, Edward Dennis

The Escaped Mystery: The Poetry of Momcilo Nastasijevic

The Escaped Mystery explores the poetry of Momčilo Nastasijević, whose poetic achievement is described by E.D. Goy as “one of the greatest, if not the greatest, in the Serbian language of the twentieth century.” Although his output was...

Pasternak-Ramsay & Salys

Tightrope Walking

The Russian Poet and Philosopher Josephine Pasternak (1900–93) published two collections of verse during her lifetime, and her philosophical treatise Indefinability was brought out posthumously in 1998. Josephine belonged to a famous Moscow...

Maguire, Robert A.

American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists, V. 2: Literature

Contents ELLEN CHANCES: Tarkovskii's Film The Sacrifice and its Russian Liteary Roots     9 E.W. CLOWES: Berdiaev's Samopoznanie: Philosophical Autobiography as Creative Act     21 JULIAN W...