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Canadian Slavonic Papers

An Interdisciplinary Journal
Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe

Volume 36 • Numbers 3-4 • September-December 1994

         

Slavic Theatre: New Perspectives

ARTICLES  

Elena Siemens, Christopher Menu, Guest Editors

ix

Introduction

Donna Oliver

303

Theatre without the Theatre: Proletkult at the Gas Factory

Anna Lisa Crone

317

“Balaganchik,” “Maskarad” and Poema bez geroia: Meierkhol'dian Expressions of the Artist’s Crisis in Twentieth-century Russia

Susan Costanzo

333

A Theatre of Their Own: the Cultural Spaces of Moscow and Leningrad Amateur Studios 1957–1986

Romana Bahry

349

Les' Kurbas’ Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Avant-garde Drama

Veronika Ambros

363

Daniela Fischerová’s New Palimpsest Between “Living in Truth” and “The Battle for an Island of Trust”

Rimma Volynska

377

Avant-gardism in Bruno Jasieński’s Socialist Grotesquerie The Mannequin Ball

Tamara Trojanowska
397

Living in Margins and Mazes or Freedom Worth Reconsidering: Mrożek’s The Emigrants and Havel’s The Audience

Diana Kuprel

413

Ludic Form and Formal Ludus: The Play of Masks in Witold Gombrowicz’s Operetta

Dorota Glowacka

429

Henry-Roi: Strategies of Evasion and the Romantic Tradition in Witold Gombrowicz’s The Marriage

Yana Hashamova

439

The Socialist Absurd, the Absurd, and the Post-Absurd — A Syndrome of Contemporary Bulgarian Theatre

Johannes Birringer

449

Transcentrala—Na sončni strani Alp

DISCUSSION


Dmitri D. Kozikis and
David R. Marples
467

Impartiality: The Belarusian Context

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Nevenka Koscevic and Connie Wawruck-Hemmett

473

Canadian Publications on the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for 1993

ARCHIVAL NOTES

 
George Bolotenko
499
A Special Fond on the Early Ukrainian “Awakening”

REVIEW ARTICLES

 
Michael Confino
505

Re-Inventing the Enlightenment: Western Images of Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century

Alexander N. Tumanov
523

Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov Revisited

Serge Cipko
533

East of the Elbe: The European Postcommunist Order

BOOK REVIEWS

Christopher Menu

541

Andrew Donskov, Richard Sokoloski, Roman Weretelnyk, John Woodsworth, eds., Slavic Drama: The Question of Innovation. Proceedings

Harold B. Segel, Twentieth-Century Russian Drama from Gorky to the Present

Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, Le théâtre soviétique durant le dégel, 1953–1964

W. Gareth Jones

543

J. Douglas Clayton, Pierrot in Petrograd: Commedia dell’arte/Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama

Diana Kuprel

544

Nikolay Gogol, Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy: Plays: Volume One, 1856–1886

Peter A. Rolland

547

Predrag Matejić and Hannah Thomas, compilers, Manuscripts on Microform of the Hilandar Research Library (The Ohio State University): Catalog with Indexes, Vols. 1–2

Victor O. Buyniak
548

Romana Bahry, Shliakh sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukraïnu: “Taras Bul'ba” M. Hoholia i “Chorna rada” P. Kulisha v svitli istorychnoï romanistyky Val'tera Skotta

Tetiana Nazarenko

549

Bohdan Boychuk, Irena Makaryk, Danylo H. Struk and John Fizer, eds., Poza tradytsii: Antolohiia ukrainskoi modernoi poezii v diiaspori/Beyond Tradition: An Anthology of Modern Ukrainian Poetry in the Diaspora

Lorraine Busch

550

John Glad, ed., Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad

Anto Knezević

552

Roy Gutman, A Witness To Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dispatches on the “Ethnic Cleansing” of Bosnia

The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect with a New Introduction and Reflections on the Present Conflict by George F. Kennan

Samantha Power, compiler, Breakdown in the Balkans: A Chronicle of Events. January, 1989 to May, 1993

Robert Orr

554

Werner Lehfeldt, Einführung in die morphologische Konzeption der slavischen Akzentologie

Luc Beaudoin

555

Anatoly Liberman, compiler and translator, On the Heights of Creation: The Lyrics of Fedor Tyutchev

Anto Knezević

556

Stjepan G. Meštrović with Miroslav Goreta and Slaven Letica, The Road from Paradise: Prospects for Democracy in Eastern Europe

Ralph Lindheim

557

Marcia A. Morris, Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature

Susan Ingram

559

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov: A Psychoanalytic Study

Luc Beaudoin

560

Eleanor C. Aitken, compiler and editor, Russian Poetry for Intermediates: From Pushkin to Akhmadulina

Stephen C. Markovich

560

Theodor Bergmann, Gert Schaefer, and Mark Selden, eds., Bukharin in Retrospect

Halimur R. Khan

561

Sergo Beriia, Moi Otets—Lavrentii Beriia

Bohdan Harasymiw

563

Janusz Bugajski, Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties

A.F. Zweers
564
Ivan Bunin, The Life of Arseniev. Youth

M. Dmitriev

565

Conrad Bussow, The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm

T. Allan Smith

566

Michael S. Flier and Daniel Rowland, eds., Medieval Russian Culture. Volume II

Stephen F. Jones

567

Suzanne Goldenberg, Pride of Small Nations: the Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder

Alena Heitlinger

569

Mike Forrest Keen and Janusz Mucha, eds., Eastern Europe in Transformation: The Impact on Sociology

M. Dmitriev

570

Foy de la Neuville, A Curious and New Account of Muscovy in the Year 1689

Robert Orr

571

Juhani Nuorluoto, Die Bezeichnung der Konsonantischen Palatalität im Altkirchenslavischen: Eine graphematisch-phonologische Untersuchung zur Rekonstruktion und handschriftlichen Überlieferung

Jeanette Bicknell

572

James P. Scanlan, ed., Russian Thought After Communism: The Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage

Stephen Page

573

Vladimir Shlapentokh, Munir Sendich and Emil Payin, eds., The New Russian Diaspora: Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics

T. Allan Smith

574

Ludwig Steindorff, Memoria in Altrußland. Untersuchungen zu den Formen christlicher Totensorge

Hans Rothe and E.M. Vereščagin, eds., Gottesdienstmenäum für den Monat Dezember nach den slavischen Handschriften der Rus' des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts

David G. Anderson

575

John J. Stephan, The Russian Far East: A History

Alexandra Sosnowski

577

Peter Thiergen, ed., Ivan Gončarov: Leben, Werk und Wirkung. Beiträge der I. Internationalen Gončarov-Konferenz, Bamberg, 8.–10. Oktober 1991

Clara Hollosi

578

C.J.G. Turner, Time and Temporal Structure in Chekhov

Sibelan Forrester

579

Anne E. Brown and Marjanne E. Goozé, eds., International Women’s Writing: New Landscapes of Identity

I. Grekova, The Ship of Widows

Svetlana Grenier

581

Sona Stephan Hoisington, ed., A Plot of Her Own: The Female Protagonist in Russian Literature

 

 

 

Books Received

585

 

Annual Index

597

 

Contributors

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