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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...

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...