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Aroutunova

Lives in Letters: Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya and her Correspondence

The letters to Princess Volkonskaya published in this book reflect nearly thirty years of Russian and European history: the Napoleonic Wars, victory and the subsequent upheavals, the religious struggles between the Russian Orthodox Church and the growing...

Rollberg, Peter

And Meaning for a Life Entire

CONTENTS Foreword     9 Letter from James H. Billington     13 Letter from Strobe Talbott     15 A Bibliography of the Publications by Charles A...

Dimitrova, Stefana

Исключения в русском языке (Iskliuchenia v russkom iazyke)

Monografiia iavliaetsia pervym samostoiatel'nym issledovaniem, posviashchennym russkim iskliucheniiam. Avtor rabotal nad nim v techenie bolee tridtsati let. V nachale semideshtykh godov poiavilis' ego pervye publikatsii, sviazannye s problemoi...

James Daniel Armstrong in Memoriam

Contents   Foreword     7 Edna Andrews Markedness Theory: An Explication of its Theoretical Basis and Applicability in Semantic Analysis     9 Ronald F. Feldstein On the Evolution of Jer +...

Edited by Charles E. Gribble, Robert A. Rothstein, Edythe C. Haber, Hugh M. Olmsted, Robert Szulkin, Charles E. Townsend

Alexander Lipson in Memoriam

"Alexander Lipson himself and A Russian Course are part of the history of American Slavistics, which In Memoriam continues into many areas of current interest. Besides the expected literary, linguistic and pedagogical issues, it touches on...

Shaw, J. Thomas

Pushkin's Poetics of Unexpected

Pushkin's unexpected nonrhymes and rhymes consitute an important part of his poetics of the unexpected; however, hitherto they have never been studied in any detail, and, indeed have only rarely been even touched upon. This study analyzes...

klaus roth & gabriele wolf

South Slavic Folk Culture

The ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity, the perceived distance from Western culture as well as linguistic barriers make access to South Slavic folk cultures difficult. In spite of that there is a surprisingly large number of...

Geld, Isidore

Dictionary of Omissions for Russian Translators

While the examples are taken from scientific texts, this dictionary will be of use to all students of Russian, and especially to all translators. "Omissions" are words or phrases that are not to be translated when turning a Russian text into English...

Swan & Oleksy

W Labiryncie

An innovative, multi-faceted textbook of Polish which takes a popular Polish television soap opera as its basis, this textbook is aimed above all at advanced learners, but may be used, by adapting classroom activities appropriately, as a supplement...

Wexler, Paul

The Ashkenazic Jews

This book, a linguist's reassessment of early European Jewish history, will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered how the Jewish people, lacking their own territorial base and living as a minority among often hostile non-Jewish peoples over the...

Woodward

Form and Meaning

The twenty chapters of this volume are revised versions of essays published during the last twenty-five years in a variety of journals and collections. They are studies of works belonging to five different genres and written by fourteen Russian and...

Loseff & Scherr

A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place contains papers, from a conference dedicated to Akhmatova's centennial, which focus not on her poetry by itself, but on the place where she spent her formative years, Tsarskoe Selo (now, of course, called Pushkin), and on the poetic...