Academic Studies Press: 2009 Catalog

[Igor Nemirovsky]

ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS is delighted to announce its new Slavic Studies 
Catalog for Spring and Summer, 2009.  To learn more or to place an order, 
please visit us at 
http://www.academicstudiespress.com/Files/slavic_series_lowers.pdf .

Below are some highlighted titles:

A Companion to Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit. 
by Thomas Seifrid
ISBN 978-1-934843-08-6 
160 pp. cloth, $38.00 

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of 
Soviet Russia, Platonov's “The Foundation Pit” registers a dissonant mixture of 
utopian longing and despair.  Widely recognized as a masterpiece of twentieth-
century Russian prose, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody 
of the Soviet "production" novel. In addition to an overview of Platonov's key 
themes, Seifrid discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his 
troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political 
background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the 
West in 1973.  

"A Companion" is an excellent classroom resource.  Contact us to inquire about 
desk copies.

Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia. 
by Viktor Zhivov, translated by Marcus Levitt
ISBN 978-1-934843-12-3 
440 pp. cloth, $78.00 

Zhivov's study of the evolution of language and culture is one of the most 
important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and 
students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary 
language was a key to the formation of a modern secular culture.  Zhivov 
traces the growth of a vernacular language from the "hybrid Slavonic" of the 
late seventeenth century through the debates between "archaists and 
innovators" of the early nineteenth century.  Now available in English, Zhivov's 
study is an essential work on the genesis of modern Russian culture.

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