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Volkova & Cloutier

Up the Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry

Up the Devil's Back: An Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry presents 65 selected Czech poets in English translation, together with their biographies. Co-translated and edited by Bronislava Volková (Professor of Czech literature, Comparative...

Rothstein, Robert

Two Words to the Wise

Since July 2004 Robert Rothstein has been writing about Polish language, literature and folklore for the Boston-based biweekly Biały Orzeł/White Eagle. Inspired by the calender, by items in the Polish press, by his experience learning and teaching...

Cravens et al.

Between Texts, Languages and Cultures

From the editors: Czech studies in the United States would be inconceivable without Mike’s pioneering work, both his methodologically groundbreaking textbook and his numerous translations of Czech literature, including works by Karel Čapek, Bohumil...

Dunning et al.

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited

This volume is respectfully and affectionately presented to Robert O. Crummey on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of his famous compilation Rude & Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the accounts of Sixteenth-Century English...

Bethea, David

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists vol. 2: Literature

Contents Sharon Lubkemann Allen Navigating Past/Present: Modes of Mapping Cultural Memory in Post-Modern Russian and Luso-Brazilian Fiction     1 Todd Patrick Armstrong “Training for Brightness” in Hanna...

Bethin, Christina Y.

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists vol. 1: Linguistics

Contents Ronelle Alexander Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian     1 Christina Y. Bethin On Quantity Dissimilation in East Slavic     21 Daniel E...

Miletich, John

Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance

Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology is a revised and expanded edition of The Lute and the Lattice: Croatian Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries, first published in The Bridge (Zagreb), volume 25 (1971). The...

Timofeyeva-Yegorova, Anna

Red Sky, Black Death

Born in a tiny village amidst revolution and civil war, Anna Yegorova came of age during the grimmest years of Soviet power. An optimistic and resolute young patriot, she saw hope and vision in the nascent superpower's ideology. She volunteered to...

Hoogenboom et al.

Mapping the Feminine

From the Introduction: This volume honors the extraordinary life, path-breaking career, and pioneering scholarship of a truly modest woman—Professor Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, Barnard College emerita. Born into the old noble families of the...

Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie

Village Values

From the introduction: The rituals of wedding, delivery, and funeral provide us with an insight into how multiple strains of Russian culture from the October Revolution to the present have managed to coexist and evolve. All three rituals exhibit traces...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Literature from 1918-2000 - Hardcover

This double volume covers the periods from 1918 to 1939 and from 1945 to 2000 and constitutes the sixth and last part of the history and anthology of Polish literature from its beginnings to the year 2000. The task of making a comprehensive selection of...

Brandenberger, David

Political Humor under Stalin

Political Humor Under Stalin is an anthology of jokes, wisecracks, and satire from the Soviet 1930's and '40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world's most repressive societies. More than merely a joke...