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sabrina p. ramet, james r. felak, & herbert j. ellison

Nations and Nationalisms

Nationalism has been a driving force in the still unfinished era of nation-building in East Central Europe. Conventionally traced to the late Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the rise of nationalism colored nineteenth-century understandings...

Mozur, Joseph

Advanced Russian Tabloid Reader

This reader for intermediate-advanced students is drawn from the "juicy" material of tabloid journalism; subjects range from the incredible and ridiculous to the horrendous and outrageous. The language is highly provocative, peppered with social...

Langston, Keith

Cakavian Prosody

The Čakavian dialects are known for their complex prosodic systems and have long been recognized as an important source of information for the historical reconstruction of Common Slavic accentuation. The study of the interactions of tone, quantity, and...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Romantic Literature

The period of Romanticism has a special meaning for the Polish people. In spite of political and military defeats suffered between 1772 and 1863, and, most tragically, the loss of independence, Poland "had not lost her life yet." Considerable credit...

Spieker, Sven

Gøgøl: Exploring Absence

I. The Un/Sayable 1. Renate Lachmann The Semantic Construction of the Void 2. Jurij Lotman The Truth as Lie in Gogol's Poetics 3. Mikhail N. Epshtein The Irony of Style: The Demonic Element in Gogol's Concept of Russia 4. Christopher Putney Gogol's...

Kiziria & Aronson

Georgian Language and Culture

This book is intended for students who have completed the equivalent of a first-year Georgian course. Designed to be used either in the classroom or for self-instruction, the book presupposes only a command of basic Georgian grammar and a basically...

Veder, William

Utrum in alterum

Texts handed down from generation to generation in manuscript form must be asked the fundamental question "Of two readings, which is more likely to have been corrupted into the other?" This question, which can be traced at least as far as Erasmus of...

Rå Hauge, Kjetil

A Short Grammar of Bulgarian

The grammar has three primary purposes. First, it may serve as a practical handbook, presenting the essential linguistic facts of contemporary Bulgarian to the foreign language learner who seeks to deepen his understanding of Bulgarian beyond the...

Vajda et al.

Russian Punctuation

Although punctuation is crucial to even basic written literacy in any European language, Russian language textbooks designed for English speakers routinely fail to provide even basic information on this important facet of written Russian. This new,...

Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake (eds.)

American Contributions to the 12th International Congress of Slavists

Contents Part I: Literature CAROL J. AVINS Jewish Ritual and Soviet Context in Two Stories of Isaac Babel     11 ELLEN CHANCES Reflections of Contemporary Russian Society, Culture, and Values in Iurii Mamin's Film, Window to...

Newlin/Forrester

Toward a Classless Society

Thompson Bradley taught Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College from 1962 to 2001. He has had a tremendous and continuing influence on colleagues, friends, students, and comrades in political organizing and action. This Festschrift honors...

Mihailovich, Vasa D.

Third Supplement to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English

The Third Supplement to a Comprehensive Bibliography of Former Yugoslav Literature in English extends the project begun in 1976 with a preliminary volume-reprinted totally in 1984-and followed with the First Supplement in 1988 and the Second...