Accented and Glossed Texts

[Andrea Lanoux]

Below are the responses I received to my request for recommendations of
nineteenth-century Russian readers and on-line texts. Many thanks to
those who responded!

Sincerely,
Andrea Lanoux


Books

Draitser, Emil. Russkie poety XIX veka: Antologiia dlia studentov.
Tenafly, N.J. : Hermitage, 1999. Emil Draitser also published Russkie
poety XX veka: Antologiia dlia studentov. Tenafly, N.J. : Hermitage
Publishers, 2000. These are college level readers. I used the XXth
century one with an advanced Russian poetry class in Russian, and it
worked very well.

The British publishing house Gerald Duckworth (Bristol Classic Press)
publishes a series of readers (formerly published by Bradda Books,
Ltd.), which are distributed in the US by International Publishers
Marketing.  These readers are glossed and accented, and there's quite a
wide variety from the 19th and 20th centuries -- mostly prose, but some
poetry as well.  There's even an (unfortunately unaccented, but well
glossed) Introductory Reader ("Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature"
ed. D. Gillespie and B. Lanin), which includes short bios and excerpts
from poetry/ prose of major 19th-cen. authors. The distributor's URL is:
http://www.internationalpubmarket.com/ You can look up the readers (to
see what's available) either on Duckworth's site (http://www.duckw.com/)
or at Blackwell's online bookshop (type, for example, the name of the
author and "duckwell" as your keywords): http://www.blackwell.co.uk/

Contact Gareth Perkins at Berkeley Slavic Specialties. I think he can
help you with accented texts. He has printed a number of them and is
working on more. 510-653-8048. We keyed in, with stresses,  "Gospodin iz
San-Frantsisko", "Pan Apolek", "Korol'", "Nos", "Gospodin Prokharchin".
Also, our edition of "Kalina krasnaia" (both the kinopovest' and a
precise transcript of the movie) is a stressed reader.


Online sources

See the actr/accels web site -- "russnet".  (http://www.russnet.org). I
forget the exact url, but there is a link to a site that has the
capability for creating custom readers (you choose the level based on
how many syllables -- e.g. all 2-syllable and up words are glossed).

russianpoetry.net has hundreds of translated poems with original texts
-- not exactly glossed, but the translators strove to provide accurate
translations, not "poetic" ones -- they're intended to be read by
someone who has knowledge of Russian. While the poems aren't accented,
MOST of them have audio recordings, which is even better!

www.conradish.com. It's an amazingly rich site -- nothing accented, but
an amazing dbase system hooked up to literary texts. Play around with it
& you'll see its enormous pedagogical possibilities.

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