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For nearly fifty years E. Wayles Browne has been a unique and almost irreplaceable intellectual resource for specialists in Slavic linguistics, working on a myriad of topics in a variety of languages and from a range of theoretical perspectives. He has been a subtle yet persistent force in bringing Slavic puzzles to the attention of the larger world of linguists and in defining the larger significance of these puzzles. The present volume brings together a leading cohort of specialists in South Slavic linguistics to celebrate Wayles Browne's body of works in this area. ... Read more

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Brilliant.
This is a true masterpiece of Baroque epic poetry. I have been privileged to read the poem in its original language, and i was struck by the poet's mastery of the form, rhythm and language. I can only reccomend this work toyour personal library.

Great epic
This is a great poem, full of deep and poetic writing...It could be reminiscent of some Italian renaissance poetry, but this is a special thing. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in poetry, and thisis a work little known outside the Balkans and Southern Europe ... Read more

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". . . in many ways the best of Bakhtin."--New York Times Book ReviewSpeech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration. ... Read more

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excellent late essays
This collection of late essays is essential for any student of Bakhtin in order to achieve a fuller understanding of the totality of his work. While the essays are varied, ranging from a discussion of the Bildungsroman & Goethe's sense of time to questions of approaching text from a foundation of cultural dialog, perhaps the most important essay here is the one lending its name to the title. Describing as never before Bakhtin's sense of speech genre as a post-Formalist critique of speech as monad, it is a crucial essay in understanding Bakhtin's entire paradigm of dialogic communication. Along with his earlier works, this collection of essays is a must for any student of linguistics, semantics, semiotics, literature, or any particular school of philosophy.

Review of the Bildungsroman Book Fragment
This Book, like almost everything Bakhtin wrote is profound and food forthought. Unfortunately, and this is the drawback with some of the EnglishLanguage translations and compilations, it is also quite uneven, both insubject matter and content. The Reader should not be deterred. It is worthreading, because there are some fine insights buried in this book. --- Iwill only write about the so called Bildungroman Fragment here. It hasbecome almost more legendary because of the fact that Bakhtin supposedlyused the only surviving manuscript for Cigarette Papers and thus literallysmoked his own work. However, any student of the Bildungsroman willimmediately comrpehend its use in Bakhtin's reconstruction of the Historyof the Genre. Bakhtin begins with the origins in the 16th and 17thCenturies, and traces the development to the Classical Period of GermanLiterature. Presumably, Goethes "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" wasto be the pinnacle of development, but this is a part that is lost. What isimportant is that Bakhtin not only correctly names the Novels of the Genrewe all should know, by authors such as Wieland, Herder, Keller etc., but healso names several very important Novels which are usually forgotten, andhave been branded as obscure or eccentric by Critics and Scholars. I willname three: Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel: "Lebensläufe in AufstehenderLinie", Johann Karl Wezel: "Lebensgeschichte Tobias Knauts, desWeisen sonst der Stammler genannt" and Jean Paul: "Titan". Iwould suggest that Bakhtin's Essay is of importance because thanks to himthese three Novels are being rediscovered by todays' readers, they haveentered the Discussion of Literary of Criticism and have taken their placein the History of the Bildungsroman, which they rightly deserve.

brilliant
The best introduction to Bakhtin as he is at his mostprovocative and lucid form. The next book to read for those interestedin the man would be the Rabelais and the Dostoevsky book. ... Read more

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Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have already been translated, these essayso"Art and Answerability," "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity," and "The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art"oare essential to a comprehensive understanding of Bakhtin's later works. A superb introduction by Michael Holquist sets out the major themes and concerns of the three essays and identifies their place in the canon of Bakhtin's work and in intellectual history. The introduction, together with Vadim Liapunov's scholarly gloss, makes these essays accessible to students as well as scholars. ... Read more

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Learn how libraries have risen to the challenges created by the fall of Communism and the rise of information technology!

How do librarians and researchers face war, social upheaval, and other challenges after the fall of Communism and the rise of digital technology? Libraries in Open Societies offers fascinating answers to this and many other questions while providing an overview of this rapidly changing arena. An international panel of authors who know the specialized concerns of libraries in Eastern Europe and the former USSR addresses topics that include the difficulty of preserving and acquiring materials, the importance of international cooperation, and the benefits and pitfalls of electronic media.

This book also discusses the rise of the Internet in Russia, the movement of international bibliographies onto the Web, and other features of the digital revolution. Libraries in Open Societies, itself an example of the value of international cooperation in the modern world, will be an important addition to your bookshelves! Other absorbing topics in Libraries in Open Societies include:

• reconstruction of libraries in Bosnia
• the role of the Polish émigré press in Great Britain
• guidelines for developing Slavic literature collections
• the creation and restoration of digital archives throughout the region
• electronic information delivery in the United States and abroad
• journals in Slavic and East European librarianship
• Baltic collections in North America and Western Europe
• the role digital technologies have played in restoring Bosnian printed heritage materials lost during the 1992–1995 war ... Read more

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Corrected title
The correct spelling of the title of this book is "Vstrecha russkoi emigratsii s "Doktorom Zhivago": Boris Pasternak i kholodnaia voina" (Stanford Slavic Studies, volume 38). It is a study of the reception in the West of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, the various editions of the book, and Pasternak's nomination for the Nobel Prize. Written by Lazar Fleishman, a leading expert and author or editor of several books about Pasternak's life and writings, the book also reproduces letters and comments by literary scholars and writers of the time. ... Read more

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Oversize, deluxe hard red cover w/satin page marker. "Aninspired monumental work". King James Version of the Gospel ofMatthew, hand-lettered with over 35 full-color icons depictingrelevant scenes from the Gospel. In the style of the medieval andearly middle-ages and of the classic masters. On of the firstmasterpieces of this style in the english language. Winner of the 1994Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Religion Category. ... Read more

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Jan Kollar, famed poet, romantic nationalist, and Lutheran pastor for the Slovak community in Budapest, took the Slavic world by storm in the early nineteenth century with his idea of Slavic Reciprocity. Kollar conceived of Russians, Poles, Czechs, and South Slavs as tribes of one great Slavic nation, destined for a glorious future if they would but unite. Kollar's ideals inspired poets, patriots, and politicians for over a century. Ironically, the (linguistic) reforms Kollar suggested for bringing about Slavic unity ultimately contributed to the fragmentation of the Slavic world. Kollar's book on Slavic Reciprocity has been published in German, Czech, Serbian, and Russian, but now appears for the first time in English, annotated, and accompanied by an introductory essay on Kollar's life, influences, and posthumous impact on the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Republics. ... Read more

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Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijk’s relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Leipzig (1902-1903), where he followed August Leskien’s lectures in Slavic studies. Attention is also paid to the various aspects of Van Wijk’s enormous oeuvre covering the whole field of Slavic studies and of phonology, of which he was one of the pioneers. Van Wijk did not, however, follow the lines approved for the social conduct of a Leiden professor and was at one time suspected by the police of communist activities. His commitment to materially helping all he could from an Eastern Europe torn apart by the First World War and its aftermath was exceptional. His fascination with all things Russian is a background theme that played throughout his life and even at his death: son of a Dutch Reformed minister, the bachelor Van Wijk was buried in a grave surmounted by a Russian Orthodox cross beside his Russian foster son, who died young.This book is of interest to Slavists, linguists and cultural historians.ContentsForewordChapter I – Youth and student yearsChapter II – TeacherChapter III – Deputy librarianChapter IV – Professor: the first yearsChapter V – LinguistChapter VI – PublicistChapter VII – StudentsChapter VIII – ColleaguesChapter IX – FriendsChapter X – The last yearsEpilogueAcknowledgementsArchives and correspondence consultedBibliography of Nicolaas van Wijk:corrections and additionsReferencesIndex of personal namesIllustrations ... Read more

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"The volume seeks both to reclaim works of women who were (or are) significant in their traditions and their own times and to employ gynocritical approaches to recognized women writers.... Readers interested in how the female self is shaped and struggles to find voice and an identity of her own will find all of these essays rewarding." -- Canadian Slavonic Papers

"... I would recommend all these individual essays to my students and colleagues." -- The Russian Review

"... this is a rich accumulation of close readings, historical surveys, studies of single authors, cultural reception, genres, and criticism." -- Slavic and East European Journal

"Addressing a variety of political and historical climates, these well-annotated essays will prompt deeper consideration of Slavic literature." -- Choice

This book breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. These eleven essays apply Western literary and feminist theory to 19th- and 20th-century Slavic literary works. Themes include mothers and daughters, Catholicism, sexuality, verbal and visual art, and love lyric.

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Yuri Leving's ''Keys to The Gift'' systematizes in a succinct and coherent way the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel ''The Gift'' (1934-1939) from passing notes in the private correspondence to scholarly articles, accumulated during the seventy years since its first appearance in the print. Its first part, The Novel, outlines the basic properties of ''The Gift'': the plot, characters, style, and motifs, as well as reconstructs an internal chronology of the novel. The second part of the monograph, The Text, describes the creation of the novel and the history of its publication, public and critical reaction, challenges of the English translation, as well as its post-Soviet reception. Besides annotations to all five chapters of ''The Gift'', the Commentary provides insights into problems of paleography featuring unique textological analysis of The Gift based on the author's study of the archival copy of the manuscript. ... Read more

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The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace" marks a radical departure from the critical tradition dominated by Sir Isaiah Berlin’s view that the novel is deeply divided against itself, a majestically flawed contest of brilliant art and clumsy thought. To the contrary, Jeff Love argues that the apparently divided nature of the text, its multi-leveled negotiation between different kinds of representation, expresses the rich variety of the novel’s very deliberate striving to capture the fluidity of change and becoming in the fixed forms of language. The inevitable failure of this striving, revealing the irreducible conflict between infinite desire and finite capacity, is at once the source of new beginnings and the repetition of old ones, a wellspring of continually renewed promises to achieve a synoptic vision of the whole that the novel cannot fulfill. This repetitive struggle between essentially comic and tragic conceptions of human action, far from being a pervasive flaw in the texture of the novel, in fact constitutes its dynamic center and principal trope as well as the productive origin of the unusual features that distinguish it as an uncommonly bold narrative experiment. ... Read more

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Outlining the archetypes of Soviet fiction, this text examines the recurrent and largely unconscious pattern from one author to the next over a period of some seven decades in Soviet letters. Authors studied include: Zamyatin, Babel, Olesha, Platonov, Bulgakov, Pasternek and Rasputin. ... Read more