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From: "Genevra Gerhart" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] THE RUSSIAN CONTEXT is here!
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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