Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)

An Introductory Bibliography to the Study of Hungarian Literature: Albert Tezla; Hardcover 1964

Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays: Stanislaw Baranczak; These superb essays focus on the role that culture, and particularly literature, has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe. Exploring a variety of issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak shows why, in societies where people struggle to survive under totalitarian rule, art is believed to have the power to make things happen.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

A Fugitive from Utopia: Stanislaw Baranczak; Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry is based on permanent confrontation--the confrontation of Western tradition with the experience of a "barbarian" from Eastern Europe, of the classical past with the modern era, of cultural myth with a practical, empirical point of view.; Hardcover 1987

Hungarian Authors: Albert Tezla; This exceptional bibliography, a pioneer work in its field, surveys Hungarian literature from its beginnings to 1965. Tezla begins his coverage of each author with a brief biographical account offering pertinent data on family background, education, and literary activities. The sketch provides observations on the writings of the author and his place in Hungarian literature, and a record of the languages into which his works have been translated. Further material on the author is divided into annotated sections noting bibliographical, biographical, and critical studies.; Hardcover 1970

Josef Dobrovsky and the Origins of the Igor’ Tale: Edward L. Keenan; This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, the Slovo o polku Igoreve (the Igor' Tale). Keenan delves into the history of its publication and argues that the text is not an authentic twelfth-century document, but was rather created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovsky' in the late eighteenth century.; Hardcover 2004

Necessary Angels: Robert Alter; In four elegant chapters, Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.; Hardcover 1991

Rus’ Restored: Translated with commentary by David Frick; Meletij Smotryc’kyj; A prominent religious figure and polemicist, Meletij Smotryc'kyj was caught up in the struggle between Orthodox and Uniate beliefs. His polemics served as the cornerstone of the Orthodox response to the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation and Counter-Reformation. He later argued for a new unity between the eastern and western Churches. The works collected in this volume, written over a period of twenty years, offer unique insight into the elite of early modern Rus' and their place in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.; Hardcover 2006

Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 14, Biha´c Krajina” Epics from Biha´c, Cazin, and Kulen: Milman Parry, Collector; Compiled by Albert B. Lord; David E. Bynum, Ed. and Trans.; Hardcover 1980

Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 6, Bijelo Polje, Three Texts from Avdo Mededovi´c “The Wedding of Vlahinji´c Alija Osambeg Delibegovi´c Pavicevi´c Luka: Milman Parry, Collector; David E. Bynum, Ed. and Trans.; Hardcover 1980

Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature: George G. Grabowicz; Ukrainian literature, reflecting a turbulent and often discontinuous political and social history, presents special problems to the historian of literature. In this book Grabowicz approaches these problems through a critique of the major non-Soviet position in the field, the History of Ukrainian Literature of the eminent Slavist Dmytro Čyževs'kyj.; Paperback 1981

The Witness of Poetry: Czeslaw Milosz; A Nobel laureate reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time.; Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1984

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