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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...

Heim et al.

Readings in Czech

Readings in Czech is for students who have mastered the rudiments of Czech grammar. It introduces them to a body of Czech texts widely divergent in style and subject matter. Each selection is prefaced by a brief description of its source and context. A...

Ronelle Alexander

The Structure of Vasko Popa's Poetry

The first section discusses the general nature of the cyclical organization in Popa's work, and demonstrates the unified character of the 1980 edition of his collected works (published as seven separate volumes in Serbo-Croatian, but as a single volume...

Mayo, Peter J.

Morphology of Aspect

Since the seventeenth century was a critical period for the development of modern Russian, this study focusses on a relatively unified group of texts from one period and subjects them to a detailed and careful analysis. Constant comparisons to the...

Mozejko, Edward

Vasiliy Pavlovich Aksenov

This collection of articles is devoted to Vasiliy Pavlovich Aksenov, one of the most outstanding writers in contemporary Russian literature. In spite of all changes, turn-abouts and zigzag developments so typical of Soviet cultural life in the past...

Seyffert, Peter

Soviet Literary Structuralism

The sharp controversy of the 1920's between Russian formalists and Marxist ideologists resulted, for Soviet literary scholarship, in a lasting categorical opposition to all "formal" studies; failing the criterion of ideological commitment, "Formalism"...

Browning, Gary

Workbook to Russian Root List

Written to accompany Charles E. Gribble's Russian Root List, this workbook is intended as a study and teaching aid to facilitate the effective learning of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. "V posobii sobran obshirnyi i raznoobraznyi slovarnyi material,...

Swan, Oscar

First Year Polish (2nd)

The first edition of this book met with instant success; the new edition has been completely rewritten, with much material added, and a wealth of photographs, graphic material, and songs have been added. First Year Polish is intended for use in both...

Schmalstieg, William

An Introduction to Old Church Slavic

Because this book contains not only the grammatical material, but also readings and a detailed glossary for them, with full cross-referencing, it makes a complete introductory course in OCS. All paradigms and reading selections (except the Freising...

Eekman, Thomas

Russian Poetics

UCLA Slavic Studies no. 4 Proceedings of the International Colloquium At UCLA, September 22-26, 1975   Contents   Foreword     9 James Bailey  The Earliest Examples of Russian Folk...

Bogojavlensky, Marianna

Russian Review Grammar

A solid review grammar with many examples, lots of exercises, and done in a systematic way. Chapters on each of the cases, nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, numerals, relative clauses, time expressions; appendices and selected Russian-English and...

Botoman, Rodica C.

Imi Place Limba Romana

Fifteen chapters covering a variety of topics. Many illustrations and much cultural information. Romanian-English glossary at the end. "...this excellent manual ... is eminently suited to those seeking material in Rumanian that may be used for listening...