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Journeys to a Graveyard
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. This book reveals the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. more...
Vladimir Nabokov - American Writers 96
University of Minnesota Press 1971; US$ 36.00Vladimir Nabokov - American Writers 96 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 168.00How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling? This book focuses on the linguistic history of a nation at the crossroads of Europe. Bermel explores the way various factors ? including linguistic theory, cultural authority, political ideology in the communist and post-communist era, and a long tradition of language intervention ? contributed... more...
Mikhail Bakhtin
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 37.95Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts ? both literary and cultural ? and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century... more...
Dostoevsky and the Russian People
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00A detailed analysis of Dostoevsky's thought about folklore and his uses of popular culture and imagery in his work. more...
Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin's theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin's theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura. more...
Nabokov and the Art of Painting
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 59.50A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels more...
Textkohärenz und Narration
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The present volume is concerned with the question of what distinguishes a prose text from the Age of Realism from one from the Modern Age. Starting from the present state of research in textual semantics and narratology, criteria are tested for characterising these two epochs, and new criteria are developed which allow this epochal change to be described... more...
A Handbook of Slavic Clitics
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 71.99Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages... more...
Language and Identity in the Balkans
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 37.99After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;Language rifts in the Balkans... more...









