SEEJ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Slavic and East European Journal is published quartlery by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced
Olga E. KaganSEEJThe most recent contribution to the AATSEEL memoir archive, Emily Johnson recalls her time studying Russian under and working with Frank Miller at Columbia. https://t.co/DDZQ3ikaad https://t.co/yv9HfC539E
Paperback, 2014
$130.00Member price:$123.50 + Free shipping5% off
Mumu
Ivan Sergeyevich TurgenevSEEJIn her blog post, @MirandaLupion examines Ivan Sergeyevich #Turgenev's 1854 short story #Mumu, relating Gerasim to God and his puppy, Mumu, to Christ. https://t.co/pLbBKpQk9v
Paperback, 2016
$6.25Member price:$3.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cursed Bunny: Stories
Bora ChungSEEJBora Chung suggests that understanding Andrei Bitov's cycle of stories The Teacher of Symmetry may open new perspectives on how to approach and comprehend unique and unconventional narratives. Full abstract available at this link: https://t.co/TfYpo1NwBb https://t.co/uJXX1nFJXK
Paperback, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jabberwocky: With New Illustrations by Paul Elwin Rodgers
Lewis CarrollSEEJZbyněk Hejda’s “speech of death”; Ptydepe, invented by Ivan Havel and used by his brother Václav in one of his early plays; T. R. Field’s playful Krhút language, which is reminiscent of the language of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”; (2/3) https://t.co/13390n1Pz7
Paperback, 2013
$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mumu
Turgenev Ivan SergeyevichSEEJIn her blog post, @MirandaLupion examines Ivan Sergeyevich #Turgenev's 1854 short story #Mumu, relating Gerasim to God and his puppy, Mumu, to Christ. https://t.co/pLbBKpQk9v
Paperback, 2017
$6.63Member price:$3.32 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir NabokovSEEJIn SEEJ 63.2, Tatyana Gershkovich argues that when Vladimir Nabokov translated his novel Kamera obskura (1932) into English under the title Laughter in the Dark (1938), he significantly transformed its aesthetic concerns. https://t.co/o17RZJkSzj https://t.co/1FUht0E8L0
Paperback, 2006
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Vladimir NabokovSEEJNabokov was a visual writer who claimed a high level of control over meaning in his texts. In SEEJ 63.2, Robyn Jensen examines how the photographs in the 3rd version of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, complicate these two tenets. https://t.co/2phqOQVh30 https://t.co/3UfExx9q2t
Paperback, 1989
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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts
Alexander GriboedovSEEJIn her article, published in SEEJ 63.4, Ingrid Kleespies addresses the singular importance of the protagonist Alexander Chatskii’s “off-stage” travels in Alexander Griboedov’s 1823–25 play Woe from Wit. Abstract available at this link: https://t.co/6zhfo4heRf https://t.co/AaWm2pBdjV
Paperback, 2020
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rehearsals
Vladimir SharovSEEJHow does Vladimir Sharov manage to offer readers both immersion in the traumatic past and the critical distance from which to reflect on it? Sharov's translator, Oliver Ready, analyzes The Rehearsals and Before & During to address this question. Abstract: https://t.co/JCh7pJsQNc https://t.co/H9bXdLBePm
Paperback, 2018
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