Recently added articles from Canadian Slavonic Papers:
A Note from the Editor
Mar 01, 2008; Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S ... Welcome to the fiftieth volume of Canadian Slavonic Papers. This is a nice round number that warrants a little attention for it bespeaks of the achievements and tenacity of Slavic Studies in Canada. It took 52 years to arrive at this milestone, a testament to the fact that the journal ...
Ukrainian Ballads in Canada: Adjusting to New Life in a New Land
Mar 01, 2008; Kononenko, Natalie ... ABSTRACT: Folklore is the artistic expression of belief. The various forms of folklore change and adapt to reflect changing circumstances and changing views of the world. When Ukrainians came to Canada, they brought their folklore, ballads included, with them. In the new land, ballads helped ...
The Paradigm of the Hebrew Prophet and the Russian Tradition of Iurodstvo
Mar 01, 2008; Kobets, Svitlana ... ABSTRACT: This paper proceeds from the premise that Russian iurodivye-or fools for Christ-display a remarkable resemblance to the Hebrew prophets. As it explores the genealogical link between these two cultural paradigms, the paper shows that, during the various stages of the developmental ...
Writing Standard: Process of Macedonian Language Standardization
Mar 01, 2008; Kramer, Christina ... ABSTRACT:This paper focuses on questions of Macedonian standardization at the most micro-level, i.e., within the individual. Through examination of archival materials of Macedonian writers of the early twentieth century, questions of language shift and standardization are addressed. While much ...
Negotiating Magic: Ukrainian Wedding Traditions and Their Persistence in Canada
Mar 01, 2008; Kukharenko, Svitlana ... ABSTRACT: Magical efficacy has been important in Ukrainian wedding ritual. The korovai, rushnyk, omens, gifts, the showering of the couple, and other "sacred" objects and acts of the Ukrainian folk wedding are believed to be imbued with prophetic qualities. Uprooted folklore tradition, however, ...
Duck-Hunting in Anger?
Mar 01, 2008; Orr, Robert ... ABSTRACT: This presentation aims at addressing an apparent minor discrepancy between citations in Shevelov's A Prehistory of Slavic (1964) and his Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language (1979). Shevelov (1964: 403) cites Russian ... 'drake', also occurring in Ukrainian, and gives an Old ...
Gorbanevskaia and Poland: From Pol'sha to Novaia Pol'sha
Mar 01, 2008; Reid, Allan ... ABSTRACT: Natal'ia Gorbanevskaia is primarily known as a poet and leading human rights activist, as well as for her role as author and editor at Kontinent and Russkaia mysl'. One important and substantial aspect of her life that is not well known outside of limited circles is the formative ...
The Ritual Language of the British Columbia Doukhobors as an Endangered Functional Style: Issues of Interference and Translatability
Mar 01, 2008; Schaarschmidt, Gunter ... ABSTRACT: Currently, there are about 13,000 persons of Doukhobor descent living in the Province of British Columbia (mainly in the West Kootenay area). Roughly 60% still speak Doukhobor Russian. Ritual activities among the Doukhobors depend largely on orally transmitted prayers, psalms, and ...
Turgenev as Translator
Mar 01, 2008; Zekulin, Nicholas ... ABSTRACT: Ivan Turgenev's activity as a translator was very extensive and spanned his entire career. It is, however, little known and less studied. Not only have most of his translations not been republished, but a comprehensive list, detailing his role and participation, has never been ...
Exploring the Parameters of a Central European Sprachbund
Mar 01, 2008; Thomas, George ... ABSTRACT:This paper sets out a case for identifying a Carpathian Sprachbund comprising Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Kajkavian Croatian, Hungarian, Yiddish and the Bavarian-Austrian dialect of German. It investigates the distribution of eleven possible Sprachbund-forming features: five phonological ...
Interview with David Albahari*
Mar 01, 2008; Mraovic-O'Hare, Damjana ... David Albahari (b. 1949) is a Serbian writer who has lived more than 10 years in exile in Canada. He went into exile because the former Yugoslavia was torn apart by ethnic war. Albahari left the country in 1994, at the peak of the conflict, and from 1995 to 1997, he wrote three books which are ...
Serbo-Croatian Words on the Border Between Lexicon and Grammar*
Mar 01, 2008; Browne, Wayles ... Snjezana Kordic, author of the parallel German and Croatian texts considered here (Worter im Grenzbereich ... - Rijeci na granici ...), was educated in Osijek and Zagreb and has taught Slavic languages and linguistics at a number of universities in Germany. Her first book (Relativna recenica ...
The Greatness of Vladimir Solov'ëv: A Review Essay1
Mar 01, 2008; Poole, Randall A ... In 1950, Semën Frank, himself no mean Russian philosopher, wrote that "Solovyov is unquestionably the greatest of Russian philosophers and systematic religious thinkers."2 With the appearance over the last decade or so of a series of translations, new editions, and scholarly works on Solov'ëv, ...
Bildung, Bedeutung und Gebrauch des russischen Verbalaspekts. Teil 1: Theoretische Grundlagen (Lehrbuch)
Mar 01, 2008; Breu, Walter ... Hans Schlegel. Bildung, Bedeutung und Gebrauch des russischen Verbalaspekts. Teil 1: Theoretische Grundlagen (Lehrbuch). Specimina Philologiae Slavicae, 136. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2002. 326 pp. euro32.00, paper. / Teil 2: Informationen, Aufgaben, Ûbungen. Specimina Philologiae Slavicae, ...
Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850
Mar 01, 2008; Breyfogle, Nicholas B ... Irina Paert. Old Believers, Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. xi, 257 pp. This excellent book explores questions of gender, sexuality, marriage, and family among priestless Old Believers (especially the ...
The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914
Mar 01, 2008; Zayarnyuk, Andriy ... Keely Stauter-Halsted. The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004 (cloth edition-2001). x, 272 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Photographs. Index. Paper. Many historians have claimed ...
Whose World Order? Russia's Perception of American Ideas after the Cold War
Mar 01, 2008; Jordan, Pamela A ... Andrei P. Tsygankov. Whose World Order? Russia's Perception of American Ideas after the Cold War. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xv, 205 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $45.00, cloth. $22.00, paper. In his publications, Andrei P. Tsygankov often stresses that ...
The Pushkin Handbook
Mar 01, 2008; Brintlinger, Angela ... David M. Bethea, ed. The Pushkin Handbook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. xlii, 665 pp. Select Bibliographies. Index. $60, cloth. North American and Russian Pushkin scholars differ in their approaches. While Russian scholars at the Pushkin House in Leningrad/St. Petersburg ...
Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
Mar 01, 2008; Stauter-Halsted, Keely ... Timothy J. Cooley. Making Musk in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. xvii, 293 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $45.00, cloth. The music of Poland's Tatra Mountain region has long been a ...
Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture
Mar 01, 2008; Dabrowski, Patrice M ... John Czaplicka, ed. Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 361 pp. Illustrations. Index. $39.95, cloth. Also published as Harvard Ukrainian Studies 24.1-4 (2000). Many a visitor to this capital of western Ukraine has doubtless gazed with ...