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Serbian: An Essential Grammar
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Serbian: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of Serbian as used by contemporary native speakers of the language. Refreshingly jargon free, it presents an accessible description of the language, focusing on the real patterns of use today. A reference source for the learner and user of... more...
Russian Literature
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 9.99Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, this book explores the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. The book uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare', as a recurring example, as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after him, whether poets or novelists. more...
Russian
Wiley 2005; US$ 19.95Russian a self-teaching guide Learn Russian at your own pace How do Russian letters differ from English letters? How do you choose the correct form of specific verbs? What are some useful, everyday Russian words? With Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questions and many more about this challenging language. This... more...
Fallacy of Silver Age
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 26.95While rigorously living up to the best traditions of literary-historical scholarship, the author manages to present his material in a light-hearted and entertaining way which will fascinate both the scholar of Russian literature and the interested observer of Russian culture alike. In this highly original study, Omry Ronnen critically examines the... more...
Two Plays by Olga Mukhina
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 39.95Olga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe since her first play, Tanya-Tanya , was performed in 1996. Tanya-Tanya is an atmospheric, poetic tale that observes three couples at a suburban Moscow home... more...
Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circle
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 31.95Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877--1932). From 1911 until his death, Voloshin... more...
Materializing Bakhtin
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 148.00This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics. more...
Russian Comedy of the Nikolaian Rea
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 44.95These four Russian comedies were written during the reign of Nicholas I, a period of considerable repression and censorship. They represent the most popular genres of the period. Lensky's Her First Night was an immensely popular vaudeville which held the stage for years; Kozma Prutkov's Fantasy is a parody of vaudeville which was banned after... more...
A Reference Grammar of Russian
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 54.00A Reference Grammar of Russian describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian: the patterns of orthography, sounds, inflection, syntax, tense-aspect-mood, word order, and intonation. It also refers to literature on variation and trends in the development of Russian, and makes use of contemporary data from the internet. more...
The Slavic Languages
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 50.00The 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...









