Product Description: The book pursues a usage-oriented strategy of language description by infusing it with the central concept of post-structural semiotics and literary theory - that of intertextual memory. Its principal claim is that all new facts of language are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences of using language...read more

Product Description: This final book in the 3-volume collection details the truly unique role the Christian tradition has played over the centuries in shaping the nations that now comprise Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.This collection details the tremendous, truly unique role the Christian tradition has played over the centuries in shaping the nations that now comprise Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus...read more

Product Description: The acceptance of Christianity in the tenth century is the most significant cultural event in the history of modern Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A vast reservoir of cultural concepts, expressions, and iconographic images has developed within the Eastern Orthodox tradition, and now Slavic specialists, theologians, historians, and literary scholars can turn to a collection which examines the majestic sweep of a thousand years of Slavic Christianity...read more

Product Description: The twenty-two essays in Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism, six of which appear in Russian, display the enormous advances that have taken place among Slavists in the study of the fascinating, but tragically circumscribed period in Russian literature that extends from the turn of the century to the Stalinist holocaust...read more