academic studies press new titles in slavic studies

[Igor Nemirovsky]

Dear Colleagues, 
	 
Academic Studies Press is happy to announce September –  October  
publications in Slavic Studies.

We are offering a 35% discount and free shipping for all direct orders. 

Feel free to contact us today for a reading copy of any title.
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or contact me.

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Igor Nemirovsky, Ph.D.
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Series: STUDIES IN RUSSIAN AND SLAVIC LITERATURES, CULTURES,
AND HISTORY
Series editor – Lazar Fleishman


The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak’s Writings on Inspiration and Creation
Texts by Boris Pasternak. Selected, translated, edited, introduced, and 
provided with commentaries by Angela Livingstone
ISBN 978-1-934843-23-9 
330 pp.
Price: $50.00 USD cloth
Publication date: September 2008

Major statements by Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) about poetry, inspiration, 
the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his 
own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own 
words (in translation) and are discussed in the extensive new Introduction and 
Commentaries.  In this new collection by Angela Livingstone, the texts range 
from 1910 to 1946 . The longest and the central one is Pasternak’s brilliant 
autobiographical work "A Safe-Conduct". There are commentaries on all the 
texts, as well as a final essay on Pasternak’s famous novel "Doctor Zhivago", 
which is looked at here in the light of what it says  about art and inspiration.
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Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. I
By Valentina Polukhina

ISBN 978-1-934843-15-4.  
360 pp.
$60.00 USD, cloth
Publication date: October 2008

This book is a  fascinating record of conversations with poets of various 
nationalities about Joseph Brodsky: Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Loseff, 
Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Tomas Venclova, Viktor Krivulin, 
Alexander Kushner, and Elena Shvarts. In comparison with the first edition of 
this volume (1992) this new, second edition is enlarged with three new 
interviews and a series of previously unpublished unique photographs from the 
personal archives of the author and  the interviewees. 

The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative 
interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential 
poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia.  As a poet, essayist, and playwright, 
Brodsky is widely known and read in the English-speaking world. This book is a 
superb guide to further study of Brodsky's work both for specialist scholars 
and general readers who are intoxicated by poetry.

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Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, Vol. II
By Valentina Polukhina

ISBN 978-1-934843-16-1 
604 pp.
Price: $70.00 USD, cloth
Publication date: October 2008

The new volume of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of Joseph 
Brodsky’s friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, 
students, and fellow poets:  John Le Carré, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt 
Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others.
This collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary 
phenomenon and affords a fascinating insight into the American literary scene. 
Continuing the discussion begun in Vol. 1, this series of interviews contains 
important discussions on the style, ideas, and personality of one of the most 
brilliant and paradoxical poets of our time. Subtle, incisive, and rigorous in its 
critical evaluation, each discussion significantly advances our understanding of 
Brodsky's complex poetic world.  All discussions are linked by core questions 
that are carefully and sometimes provocatively formulated. The interviews are 
published together with many unique photographs from the private archives of 
the author and the interviewees.

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