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Slavic philology and languages (General)

  • Two Plays by Olga Mukhinaby

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 39.95

    Olga 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...

  • Face to Faceby Carol Adlam; Leslie Pinfield; Vitalii Makhlin

    Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 170.00

    So far, in the West, the dissemination of Bakhtinian thought has proceeded with little or no awareness of contemporary approaches to Bakhtin in his homeland. This collection offers unprecedented access to leading Russian research in juxtaposition with important Western scholarship on Bakhtin. Taking its cue from Bakhtin as founder of dialogical criticism,... more...

  • Routledge Intensive Russian Courseby Robin Aizlewood

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    This intensive foundation course in Russian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Developed primarily for classroom use, the course offers an original and distinctive approach to language learning, presenting Russian in context offering access to Russian life, culture, history and society. Using authentic language... more...

  • Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction, 1846-190by Joe Andrew

    Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 56.00

    The present volume has as its primary aim readings, from a feminist perspective, of a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the ‘woman question’ rose to the fore and reached its peak. All the works considered here were produced in, or hark back to, a fairly narrowly defined period of not quite 20 years... more...

  • Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diasporaby David R. Andrews

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 125.00

    This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late... more...

  • Thinking Russian Translationby Edna Andrews; Elena Maksimova

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95

    Russian Translation: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive practical course in translation for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Russian. The course aims to provide intensive exposure with a view to mastering translation from Russian into English while carefully analyzing the specific problems that arise in the translation process.... more...

  • Systematic Lexicographyby Juri Derenick Apresjan; Kevin Windle

    OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 45.00

    Juri Apresjan unites theoretical linguistics and lexicography to produce a series of dazzling insights into lexical analysis which will be of equal interest to lexicologists, lexicographers, and those concerned with semantic and lexical theory. - ;This book unites lexicography with theoretical linguistics. The two fields tend to ignore each other;... more...

  • Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtinby Hilary B.P. Bagshaw

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    This book examines the significance of religion in the work of the Twentieth-Century philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, Exploring Bakhtin’s contribution to debates on methodology in the study of religion, this book argues that his use of religious terminology is derived from his source material in philosophy of religion and not from his confessional... more...

  • Russian Children's Literature and Cultureby Marina Balina; Larissa Rudova

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    Soviet literature in general and Soviet children?s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children?s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults.... more...

  • Tolstoyby Rosamund Bartlett

    Profile 2010; US$ 23.98

    A hundred years ago in November 1910 Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the world’s media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life.Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossus of world literature whether by his contemporaries or critics.... more...