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Halle, Morris

Semiotics & Historical Culture

This publication was to honor the late Professor Jurij Lotman on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.   I. Semioticheskie voprosy kul'tury.   A. H. Gurevich: "Videnie Turkillia": K probleme sootnosheniia uchenoi i fol'klornoi tradicii v...

McMillin, Arnold

Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

Contents Foreword by R. C. Elwood     5 Editorial Board     6 Introduction by Arnold McMillin     7 Ewa M. Thompson V. B. Shklovskii and the Russian Intellectual...

Kirschbaum, Stanislav

East European History

Contents Foreword     5   Historiography   Alexandru Zub Themes in Southeast European Historiography     11 Paul E. Michelson Themes in Modern and Contemporary Romanian...

Edited by Jane Gary Harris

American Contributions to the 10th International Congress of Slavists vol. 2: Literature

Contents Julia Alissandratos Leskov Versus Flaubert as Connoisseur of a Medieval Narrative Pattern Closely Associated with Hagiography     7 James Bailey The Russian Variant of the Slavic 5 + 5 Lyric Folk...

Alexander M. Schenker

American Contributions to the 10th International Congress of Slavists vol. I: Linguistics

Contents Ronelle Alexander The Accentuation of Neuter Nouns in Balkan Slavic     7 Masha Belyavski-Frank Changes in Markedness of Verbal Categories in Two South Slavic Languages     35 Henrik...

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...