"Taken as a whole, Aroutunova's book gives a vivid impression of this remarkable woman and her life." (SEER)

Bailey's book will be essential reading for those with a specialist interest in Russian folk verse..." (SEER)

...she provides stimulating interpretations of the individual works she treats. ... Barker's monograph is well written and thought-provoking." (SEEJ)

You will find this book absorbing and delightful, and if you are a Russianist, you'll also find yourself reading sections from it to your friends. The book is different from most of our books, but vive la difference!

There are many suggestive insights in this work... All in all, this is a worthy and conscientious contribution..." (MLR)

Twenty-one scholars... contributed studies, which... are innovative, insightful, and solid and which, equally important, suggest new strategies and directions for the next half century of research into Russian literature." (SR)

... Cox's subtle treatment and understanding of the psychological dimensions of Dostoevsky's works are impressive and deserve attention." (Choice)

...a major event in the recent history of scholarship on Russian verse." (RR)

As the front cover of the Brown edition says, "Mechta i mysl'... has remained in the front rank of Turgenev studies. Gershenzon's work is a luminous and intuitive examination of the relationship between Turgenev's art and his personality, and of the pervading theme that unites Turgenev's work to that of other nineteenth-century Russian writers."

Donald Fanger, the original series editor, notes in his introduction that "Vasily Gippius' book... is one of the very best things ever written about Gogol..."

The conclusions ... are interesting and thought-provoking. Greene knows the material well and manages to sustain a lively discussion throughout, asking quite relevant questions." (SR)

This book touches on nationalism, the environment, women's studies, sexuality and myth, and living folklore. Together, they add up to lasting contributions and a fitting memorial." (SEEJ)

...this book serves to show at least the vitality of the semiotic impulse and the creative energy of its practitioners.... This treasure chest... " (SEER)

...it can be thoroughly recommended as the best general introduction available in English and indeed in any language, not excluding Russian." (NZSJ)

l...his discussion of the structures, themes and problems of the prose remains balanced, lucid and accessible throughout... it (a future study) could not afford to neglect Isenberg's sensitive, important readings of Mandelshtam's literary prose." (SEEJ)

"...it provides a many-faceted portrait of this most erudite and cultured of poets, and will undoubtedly serve as a strong stimulus to further research." (SEER)

The essays range from outstanding interpretations of individual works to discoveries about pervasive structures in Pushkin's body of work. ...this book demonstrates how fruitful innovative approaches to Pushkin may yet be." (RR)

New light is shed upon the creative process, and the monograph must be hailed as a meritorious contribution to the annals of pushkinovedenie." (SEEJ)

...should be on the shelves of all libraries that serve Russian programs." (Choice)

This work quite nicely achieves its goal of illuminating the major Russian nineteenth century variations of the picaresque novel. ... LeBlanc's study is informative, clearly presented, and sufficiently comprehensive to provide most students with a good working acquaintance with the background of the picaresque novel..." (SR)

Virtually all contributions reflect solid scholarship...The articles are meaty." (RR)

...excellent and provocative study ... Lenhoff's book is well-written and conceived. The thorough treatment of the subject ... should serve as an example for future studies." (SEEJ)

Professor Fanger notes that "This is, in short, a classic of sorts..." The book also contains a 20-page essay on Leont'ev by Vasilij Rozanov, entitled "Neuznannyj fenomen."

What does one need to say about one of the most influential works on literature published in the twentieth century? Get your copy before they are gone!

For all Slavic studies and scholars of international oral narrative." (Come-All-Ye)

The more one delves into this volume the more riches one finds... Taken as a whole the volume is exhilarating. It shows the high standards of Western Slavic literary studies..." (SEEJ)

...a fitting tribute to one of the most innovative writers in contemporary Russian literature." (CSP)

...the student of Russian emigre literature owes a debt of gratitude to Professor Pachmuss for her effort..." (SEEJ)

...fine textual analysis ... this work offers perhaps the most exciting approach to Blok to have appeared recently in English." (SEEJ)

...offers many interesting insights into Sologub's prose. This book is a valuable addition to the study of Russian symbolism." (SR)

Indeed, this volume is more than the sum of its many and excellent parts, and it is not just for metrists: it is emphatically a book for all scholars of Russian verse." (SR)

All in all, Seyffert's is an achievement of mature scholarship which holds lasting value for future historians of Russia's intellectual and social history (RLJ)

...zasluzhivaet vnimanija i bezuslovnogo odobrenija." (Voprosy literatury)

...many excitements and new revelations ... no serious Pushkin reader can do without it." (SEER)

...has much to offer the student of Babel, and of Soviet fiction in the twenties more generally" (SSR)

Silbajoris's reading of Tolstoi is thus successfully corrective, astutely synthetic and a welcome new appreciation of the power of Tolstoi's aesthetics and his art." (SR)

This is a major study, not only of Blok's lyric cycles, but also of the theory and history of lyric cycles in Russian poetry. (SEEJ)

This well produced volume is a welcome contribution to the study both of an individual writer and of modernist poetics in general." (CSP)

Professor Fanger notes that this book, like the Gippius book, is "one of the most original and least read works on Gogol... As focus for his discussion Slonimsky (sic!) takes an esthetic concept of central importance not only for Gogol but (mutatis mutandis) for Dostoevsky after him -- the concept of the grotesque -- and develops it with an erudition that makes his work a contribution to the theory of the comic as well as to Gogol studies."

On the whole this book is a well-informed and valuable work on Annenskii, symbolism, and acmeism. It is a good addition to the critical literature on the period, can be used successfully in the classroom, and may be of interest to the general reader." (SR)

The twenty-one excellent papers ... in this collection suggest that the occasion was worthy of the great poet... Our overall knowledge of Blok's life, technique, preoccupations and spiritual torment is greatly advanced by this rewarding collection of essays." (ISS)

It is an impressive collection... The collection is greater than the sum of its parts." (SEER)

An "Outstanding Academic Book" selection for 1982 by Choice.