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Scatton & Velcheva

Proto-Slavic and Old Bulgarian Sound Changes

This is an English version of Praslavianski i starob''lgarski fonologicheski izmeneniia, published in 1980 by the Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Because this innovative and important book was received with great enthusiasm by...

Mihailovich, Vasa D.

First Supplement to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English

This volume continues and supplements the Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English 1593-1980, published by Slavica in 1984 (see above). It is an exhaustive listing not only of translations of literature, but also of all criticism in...

Gertz et al.

Beginning Hittite

This elementary textbook is an introduction to the Hittite language and writing system for self instruction and for beginning students, especially students who cannot work easily with the existing German grammars but who want a more up-to-date source...

Paperno & Leed

Что я видел - What I Saw

This book of readings is intended for students of Russian who have had at least one semester of study. It has a glossary and notes on facing pages and a complete glossary at the end. The copiously illustrated text of this book is a copy of portions...

Sloane, David A.

Aleksandr Blok & the Dynamics of the Lyric Cycle

One cannot approach Aleksandr Blok's poetry without asking some fundamental questions about the lyric cycle. Why did Blok organize virtually his entire lyric output into cycles? What information (if any) was he able to encode in the cycle that would have...

Nakhimovsky et al.

Advanced Russian 2nd ed.

Advanced Russian is intended for students who have had at least two full years of Russian, and can be used in third, fourth, or fifth-year classes. Its strongest features are good, colloquial Russian, solid, up-to-date grammatical analysis, considerable...

Busch, R. L.

Humor in Dostoevsky

After an introduction which addresses the problem of humor in Dostoevsky's works and discusses previous approaches to it -- especially those of M. M. Baxtin and R. Hingley -- this study devotes a separate chapter to each of Dostoevsky's five major...

Paperno & Sylvester

Getting Around Town

The book is divided into 14 chapters (Transport, Knizhnyj magazin, Pervyj vizit v gosti, etc.). Each chapter contains 15 to 20 dialogs, typically 4 lines long. The dialogs are written in a very colloquial style. The book contains no grammar explanations,...

Isenberg, Charles

Substantial Proofs of Being

Contents Introduction     9 Chapter One The Evolution of the Lyric Hero   14 Stone     17 Tristia     23 Verses 1921-25     30 From Poetry...

Slobin, Greta

Aleksej Remizov: Approaches to a Protean Writer

Papers from an international conference on Aleksej Remizov, held at Amherst, Mass in 1985.   Contents Greta N. Slobin Introduction     7 Vladimir Markov Neizvestnyi pisatel' Remizov     13 Mirra...

Swan, Oscar

Intermediate Polish

This book is a sequel to and continuation of the author's immensely successful First Year Polish. It is intended for use in the late second through the third year of language study. For additional materials, visit the author's website at:...

Barker, Adele Marie

The Mother Syndrome in the Russian Folk Imagination

This study provides a psychological investigation into the mother-son relationship in Russian folk and literary tradition. Beginning with the byliny, it examines the origins of the strong woman figure whose power over her sons results in their regressive...