Jack Zipes

Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester

Владимир Яковлевич Пропп

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work "The Russian Folktale."

The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Elena Gapova

Annotation A rich and appealing tour of post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe as seen from East and West.

Post-communist Cultures Through an East-West Gaze

Over the Wall/after the Fall

Marina Cvetaeva's Self-definition as a Female Poet

Celia Hawkesworth

Irena Vrkljan

These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In The Silk, the Shears, Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her life, and her vision of the fate of women in her mother's time and in her own. Marina continues the intense analysis of the poetic self, using the life of Marina Tsvetaeva to meditate on the processes behind biography.

The Silk, the Shears and Marina; Or, About Biography

Pamela Chester

Sibelan Forrester

Engendering Slavic Literatures breaks new ground in its investigation of gender and feminist issues in Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian literary texts by both female and male writers. Drawing on psychoanalytic approaches, film theory, and lesbian and gender theory, the authors interrogate the received notions of Western gender studies to see which can be usefully applied to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Slavic literary works. Motherhood and the relationships of mothers and daughters; the myths of selfhood that shape the autobiographies of Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Lev Tolstoy; Polish Catholicism and sexuality; portrayals of landscape in verbal and visual art; and women writers' transgressive ventures into male bastions such as the love lyric and prose fiction are among the themes of this important and innovative volume.

Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester

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