Recent Books

 

Michael J. Mikos, Polish Romantic Literature: An Anthology, 273 p., September 1999, (0-89357-281-0), cloth, $29.95.

Howard I. Aronson, ed., NSL.9: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States, 263 p., September 1999 (ISBN 0-89357-279-9), paper, $24.95.

Christina E. Kramer and Brian Cook, eds. Proceedings of the Third North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, June 12-14, 1997 (In Honor of Professor Horace G. Lunt, on the Occasion of HIs 80th Birthday). Special issue of Indiana Slavic Studies, v. 10 (1999), ISSN 0073-6929. September 1999, 240 p., paper, $24.00.

Edward Vajda and Valentina Umanets, Russian Punctuation and Related Symbols: A Guide for English Speakers, ca. 240 p., October 1999 (ISBN 0-89357-275-6), paper, $24.95.

Francis Butler, Apostle of Rus': Images of Vladimir Sviatoslavich across the Centuries, ca. 220 p., November 1999 (ISBN 0-89357-283-7), paper, $24.95.

Henrik Birnbaum: Novgorod in Focus Selected Essays, 192 p., 1996 (ISBN: 0-89357-261-6), cloth: $24.95.

Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany, edited by Olga T. Yokoyama and Emily Klenin, 391 p., 1997 (ISBN: 0-89357-269-1), $24.95.

David K. Hart: Topics in the Structure of Russian: An Introduction to Russian Linguistics, x + 294 p., 1996 (ISBN: 0-89357-268-3), $24.95.

Terje Mathiassen: A Short Grammar of Lithuanian, 256 p., 1996 (ISBN: 0-89357-267-5), $24.95.

Terje Mathiassen: A Short Grammar of Latvian, 236 p., 1997 (ISBN: 0-89357-270-5), $24.95.

Jan L. Perkowski: The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirism, 169 p., 1989 (ISBN: 0-89357-200-4), $19.95.

Henrik Birnbaum and Michael S. Flier, eds.: The Language and Verse of Russia: In Honor of Dean S. Worth on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, 320 p., 1995 (ISBN: 5-02-017704-0; UCLA Slavic Studies New Series Volume 2), cloth: $24.95. (Published in Russia by the Russian Academy of Sciences publishing house; only a few copies available.)

James Daniel Armstrong in memoriam, 218 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-247-0), cloth: $24.95.

Howard I. Aronson, ed.: Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference, 309 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-250-0), $24.95.

"This is an excellent collection;..." (SEER) "The volume includes a number of major contributions to our understanding of the structure and history of the languages of the former USSR..." (SEEJ)

Bayara Aroutunova: Lives in Letters: Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya and Her Correspondence, 224 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-251-9), cloth: $24.95.

"Recommended for research libraries." (Choice) "...cennaja publikacija..." (Literaturnaja Rossija) "Taken as a whole, Aroutunova's book gives a vivid impression of this remarkable woman and her life." (SEER)

Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery, eds.: National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe, 255 p., 1995 (ISBN: 0-936586-13-3) (Yale Russian and East European Publications, No. 13), cloth: $24.95.

Paul Cubberley: Handbook of Russian Affixes, 144 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-254-3), $14.95.

"Therefore, this Handbook surely belongs on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Russian language... (SEEJ). "...well-organized and well-documented ... a major contribution to the field of language teaching and applied linguistics." (MLJ) "...mozhet stat' nastol'noj knigoj dlja kazhdogo, kto uglublenno izuchaet russkij jazyk..." (SE) "As a reference took Cubberley's book represents a notable achievement,..." (SEER) "...a thoroughly professional job..." (MLR)

Stefana Dimitrova: Iskljuchenija v russkom jazyke, 246 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-248-9), $22.95.

"...velikolepnaja realizacija davnishnei idei avtora opisat' i teoreticheski osmyslit' antisistemnye javlenija v jazyke... Kniga St. Dimitrovoj napisana zhivo i uvlekatel'no... (SE) "V nem teorija i praktika naxodjatsja v schastlivom edinstve. ... Net somnenija, chto ego izdanie — ochen' radostnoe javlenie v rusistike..." (RLJ) "Overall, the book is a useful contribution to Russian studies, well researched and clearly expounded." (SEEJ)

Ian Hancock: A Handbook of Vlax Romani, 178 p., 1995, (ISBN: 0-89357-258-6), $19.95.

"...extremely interesting and useful work." (Diachronica) "This is a very informally written yet massively informative little volume..." (SEER) "...a sterling contribution..." (Language)

A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body, by Lidija Iordanskaja and Slava Paperno, English equivalents by Lesli LaRocco and Jean MacKenzie, edited by Richard L. Leed, 1996, xxx + 418 p. (ISBN: 0-89357-265-9), cloth: $29.95.

Thomas Karras: A Concise English-Russian Phrase Book, 110 p., 1995 (ISBN: 0-89357-260-8), $12.95.

Alexander Lipson in memoriam, 313 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-246-2), cloth: $19.95.

"Alexander Lipson himself and A Russian Course are part of the history of American Slavistics, which In Memoriam continues into many areas of current interest. Besides the expected literary, linguistic and pedagogical issues, it 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)

Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology, edited, translated, and with commentary by Michael J. Mikosh, 382 p., 34 illustrations, 1996 (ISBN: 0-89357-266-7), cloth: $29.95.

Polish Renaissance Literature: An Anthology, edited, translated, and with commentary by Michael J. Mikosh, 275 p., 16 illustrations, 1995 (ISBN: 0-89357-257-8), cloth: $26.95.

"...deserves high acclaim." (The Sarmatian Review) "In his translation he succeeds in staying close to the texts' original meaning and language while preserving meter and rhyme." (Polish Review)

Foreign Descriptions of Muscovy: An Analytic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, compiled, edited, and introduced by Marshall Poe, 233 p., 1995 (ISBN: 0-89357-262-4), cloth: $27.95.

"...an essential tool..." (SEER)

Flights Into The Past and Present/Polety v proshloe i nastojashchee, compiled and annotated by Natalie Roklina, 158 p. (8.5 x 11" format), 1995, (ISBN: 0-89357-259-4), $14.95.

South Slavic Folk Culture: A Bibliography of Literature in English, German, and French on Bosnian-Hercegovinian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian Folk Culture, compiled and edited by Klaus Roth and Gabriele Wolf with the cooperation of Tomislav Helebrant, 553 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-244-6), cloth: $29.95.

"Recommended for Balkan, Slavic, and folk culture collections at the upper-division undergraduate level and above." (Choice) "...will be welcomed by scholars interested in the Balkans." (Journal of American Folklore) "...wird auch der Suedosteuropa-Historiker reichen Gewinn ziehen..." Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas "...einen unentbehrlichen Arbeitsbehelf ... Die Lektuere des Bandes ... fuehrt zu einer Art intellektuellen aber auch emotionellen Euphorie..." (Zeitschrift fuer Volkskunde) "It is surely an indication of the success of a volume such as this that the user's reaction should be to wonder how it was possible to have managed without it." (SEER) "...Monumentalbibliographie ... einen unentbehrlichen Arbeitshilf..." (Jahrbuch fuer Volksliedforschung)

Studies in Poetics: Commemorative Volume Krystyna Pomorska (1928-1986), edited by Elena Semeka-Pankratov, 588 pp., 1995 (ISBN:0-89357-256-X), cloth: $34.95.

J. Thomas Shaw: Pushkin's Poetics of the Unexpected: The Nonrhymed Lines in the Rhymed Poetry and the Rhymed Lines in the Nonrhymed Poetry, 369 p., 1994 (ISBN: 0-89357-245-4), cloth: $24.95.

"One comes away from the book possessing new insights into specific works as well as a greater understanding of Pushkin's virtuosity. ...a highly original and highly accomplished piece of scholarship." (RR) "...many excitements and new revelations ... no serious Pushkin reader can do without it." (SEER) "...a brilliant analysis..." (MLR)

Charles E. Townsend and Laura A. Janda: Common and Comparative Slavic: Phonology and Inflection with special emphasis on Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian, 310 p., 1996, (ISBN: 0-89357-264-0), $27.95.

Charles E. Townsend: A Description of Spoken Prague Czech, 151 p., 1990 (ISBN: 0-89357-211-X), $19.95.

"an essential supplement for advanced courses in Czech and essential for anyone who aspires to converse in the language. In addition, Description is a valuable document for all linguists with an interest in diglossia." (MLJ) "...not only a solid theoretical description of Common Czech, but above all a good language textbook ... a significant contribution...." (Czechoslovak and Central European Journal) "The newcomer to the labyrinthine mysteries of Czech speech-ways will be grateful to Townsend for this expert introduction." (MLR) "...a reliable reference guide and sourcebook..." (SEEJ).

Janet G. Tucker: Revolution Betrayed: Jurij Olesha's Envy, 202 p., 1996 (ISBN: 0-89357-263-2), cloth: $24.95.


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