2011 Academic Studies Press Catalogue is now available online

[Academic Studies Press]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

We hope this message finds you well. Academic Studies Press is pleased to
announce that the 2011 Catalogue is now available online at
www.academicstudiespress.com <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/> .
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Here are some highlights from this year's forthcoming title list:

 

50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories

Selected with an introduction by Mark Lipovetsky and Valentina Brougher;
Translated by Valentina Brougher and Frank Miller with Mark Lipovetsky

Available in hardcover and paperback

 

The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings
together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th
century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and
dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors
from the end of the 20th century. The selections reflect the various
literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century:
traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism.
Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life,
history and culture in the 20th century.  The rich array of themes and
styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to
learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.

 

 

 

All the Same the Words Don't Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics,
and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition

By Caryl Emerson; Preface by David Bethea

Available in hardcover

 

All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of
essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes.   First is the creative
potential inherent in transposing classic literary texts into other genres
of media (operatic, dramatic) and the responsibilities, if any, that govern
the transposer, audience, and critic.   The practice of transposition,
however, gives rise to a creative conflict:  is there a limit to the amount
of ornamentation, pressure, or dilution to which the "mediated" word can be
subject?   Finally, the more polemical of the essays included here are
structured on the Bakhtinian notion of co-existing "plausibilities" and
points of view.  What a carnival approach can uncover in Pushkin that might
have surprised and even pleased the poet, what a libretto or play script
brings out that the "true original" hides:  here the work of the creator and
the critic can overlap in thrilling ways that respect the competencies of
each. The book includes an original Preface written by renowned Slavic
scholar, David Bethea.

 

 

The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader  

Edited by Dennis G. Ioffe and Frederick White

Available in hardcover and paperback

 

The Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to
overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the
totality of these numerous aesthetic theories which achieved a measure of
coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays
by leading scholars examines the major figures, movements and manifestos of
the period. Scholarly attention is given to literature, visual arts, cinema
and theatre in an attempt to capture the complex nature of the modernist
movement in Russia. This book would be especially relevant for university
courses on the Russian twentieth century as well as for those looking for a
comprehensive approach to the various movements and artistic expressions
that constitute the Russian avant-garde.

 

 

Please visit our website www.academicstudiespress.com
<http://www.academicstudiespress.com/>  to learn more about these new titles
coming in 2011. 

 

We hope to hear from you soon!

 

Christa Kling

Sales and Marketing

Academic Studies Press

 

 

 

 


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