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Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two-by Daniel Gerould; Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Routledge 2001; US$ 100.00This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. more...
Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europeby Rajendra Anand Chitnis
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods, focusing on the most innovative trend in this period, on those writers who characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. more...
Country Houseby D. Gerould
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 42.95"Country House", a "comedy with corpses" is a subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. This send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. more...
The Slavic Languagesby Roland Sussex; Paul Cubberley
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 48.00The Slavic group of languages - which includes Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Slovak - is one of the major language families of the modern world. This book presents a survey of all aspects of the linguistic structure of the Slavic languages, including phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and socio-historical issues. more...
It's True! You Can Make Your Own Jokesby Sharon Holt
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 10.86A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters. more...
Narrating Post/Communismby Natasa Kovacevic
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist" in contrast to the civilized "West" disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism. more...
Zapolskas Womenby Teresa Murjas
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00This groundbreaking book contains the first English language translations of three plays by Polish playwright, actress and journalist Gabriela Zapolska. They were initially performed in fin-de-siecle, partitioned Poland. Each play focuses on the economic and social pressures faced by women. A general introduction and three focused essays will serve to contextualise the translations. The essays provide the following: biographical information about Zapolska relevant to the plays? subject matter, analyses of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditions and discussion of the social and historical conditions from which the plays emerged. Murjas considers the plays? performance history and delves into the significance... more...
Kempgen, Sebastian; Kosta, Peter; Berger, Tilman; Gutschmidt, Karl: Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 1by
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 461.00The handbook is intended to present a well balanced general view of the current state of Slavic linguistics and the Slavic languages with regard to their synchronic and diachronic description. In contrast to previous undertakings of a similar nature, this handbook is not intended to be a grammar with chapters on individual languages. Its length, the extensive scope of its subject matter, the systematic approach and the method of description which reflect the current state of Slavic Linguistics set this handbook apart from others. more...
Cross Roadsby Karel Capek; Norma Comrada
Cat Bird Press 2002; US$ 9.99Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, Wayside Crosses,” presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth. These metaphysical tales are not about finding God as much as they are about discovering man’s limitations, his terror and helplessness, and understanding the value of the ongoing search. The second collection, Painful Tales,” contains more realistic stories of characters being forced to make choices in which one good conflicts with another. more...
The Discoverersby Daniel J. Boorstin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...









