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Understanding Nadezhda Khvoshshchinskaias Short Story Collection An Album: Groups and Portraits
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95By examining the function of fidelity in human relationships and in the mimetic aims of contemporary realist aesthetics, Khvoshshchinskaia reveals the dynamics of domination and control which inform them. This book contains two color photographs. more...
Colloquial Lithuanian
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Lithuanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes COLLOQUIAL LITHUANIAN your best choice in personal language learning? ... more...
Colloquial Albanian
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95COLLOQUIAL ALBANIAN is easy to use and completely up to date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Albanian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes COLLOQUIAL ALBANIAN your best choice in personal language learning? ... more...
Realismus
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 25.87Hauptbeschreibung Der literarische Realismus war in Deutschland zwischen 1848 und 1890 künstlerisch bestimmend. Der vorliegende Band bietet in 12 Originalbeiträgen namhafter Forscher eine komprimierte Charakteristik der Epoche und stellt Autoren und Werke vor. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Kanon realistischer Erzähler, die bis heute einem größeren... more...
Russian Literature
Wiley 2013; US$ 32.95For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the... more...
Basic Polish
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Basic Polish presents concise explanations of grammar with related exercises, to build confidence in using the modern language. Assuming no previous knowledge of Polish, its step-by-step approach guarantees the reader a thorough grounding in the basics of its grammar. Each of the forty units introduces a particular grammar point and provides a... more...
Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 105.00The Polish playwright and artist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, is now recognized as Poland's leading theatrical innovator of the interwar years and one of the outstanding creative personalities of the European avant-garde. This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia... more...
Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. The three plays that constitute the trilogy - A Puppet Show, The King on the Square and The Unknown Woman -... more...
Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. It shows how these writers in their fiction and critical... more...









