THE RUSSIAN CONTEXT is here!

[Genevra Gerhart]

Ladies and gentlemen!
Slavica presents

           The Russian Context:  The Culture behind the Language

Edited by Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart   ISBN 089357287X, Slavica.
Bloomington, Indiana, 2002.  726 pages.   LCCN 2002002613

The Russian Context, a companion to The Russian’s World,  treats  language
as a carrier of the culture. It  defines Russian culture by describing the
limits of the common (high) culture as it is referred to in the language.
Thus, language is taken as the evidence of the culture. This is not the
history of historians, the science of scientists, or the art of art critics.
It is the background of information one educated Russian expects of another
when they speak.

Entirely in English, though the Russian also appears so as to show what is
being discussed.  All examples are translated, usually on the same page.

Including a CD-ROM with recordings of most sentence-length passages, read in
Russian by a Russian,  with more than 1700 additional illustrations, many in
color, plus the lyrics and music of  songs familiar to most Russians.
Extensive indexes in English and in Russian.

Foreword by Barry Scherr,  Dartmouth College
Part I. A Framework for the Russian Context
  1.    Russian History   William Comer
Part II. Contexts in Language
     Introduction to Literature  Valentina Zaitseva
  2.    Quoting Russian Poetry   Valentina Zaitseva
  3.     Quoting Russian Prose    Valentina Zaitseva
  4.    Children’s Literature   Robert Rothstein and Halina Weiss
  5.    Proverbs  Olga T. Yokoyama
Part III. Contexts of Spectacle
  6.     Theater in Language  Eloise M. Boyle
  7.    Music and Dance Thomas Garza
  8.    Art and the Language of Russian Culture  James D. West,and an Addendum
by Michael Ivanov
  9.    Popular Entertainment  Ludmila Pruner
Part IV. Reality in the Russian Context
  10.Geography  Genevra Gerhart
  11.Government and Language   Lawrence Mansour
  12.Science as Language   Olga T. Yokoyama
     an Addendum by Alexander Prokhorov

See:  www.slavica.com, www.genevragerhart.com

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