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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...

Birnbaum, Henrik

Sketches of Slavic Scholars

1. O.O. Potebnja's Conception of Russian Morphosyntax Viewed in its Historical Context 2. V. Jagic's Contribution to Slavic Syntax 3. A.M. Peskovskij's Vision of Russian Syntax. 4. S. Ivsic's Contribution to Slavic Comparative Linguistics 5...

Mathiassen, Terje

A Short Grammar of Latvian

This is a "twin" to the Short Grammar of Lithuanian available from Slavica. For the first time, we have modern structural reference grammars of both modern Baltic languages written according to the same scheme, so comparisons between the two languages...

Chvany, Catherine V.

Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany

Contains a selection of work by one of the most important Slavic linguists of the past thirty years, along with introductions to the individual sections by other eminent specialists. While the material is primarily Slavic, most of the articles treat...