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Marko Juvan
Literary Studies
in Reconstruction
An Introduction to Literature
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 . 282 pp .
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he identity and relevance of literary
studies require a conceptual and institutional
reconstruction in response to the
global reshaping and commodification of
knowledge . The author thus proposes a theo-
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he Kashubs, a regional autochthonous
group inhabiting northern Poland, represent
one of the most dynamic ethnic groups
in Europe . As a community, they have undergone
significant political, social, economic
and cultural change over the last hundred
years . At the beginning of the twentieth century,
the Kashubs were citizens of Germany .
In the period between the two World Wars
they were divided between three political
entities: the Republic of Poland, the Free City
of Danzig and Germany . During the Second
World War, many Kashubs were murdered,
and communist Poland subsequently tried
to destroy the social ties that bound the community
together . The year 1989 finally brought
about a democratic breakthrough, at which
point the Kashubs became actively engaged
in the construction of their regional identity,
with the Kashubian language performing a
particularly important role .
This volume is the first scholarly monograph
on the history, culture and language
of the Kashubs to be published in English
since 1935 . The book systematically explores
the most important aspects of Kashubian
identity – national, regional, linguistic, cultural
and religious – from both historical and
contemporary perspectives .
Langues et littératures slaves · Slavistik · Slavonic Languages and Literatures
ry of literary discourse and literary history
that take into account literariness as an important
socio-cultural phenomenon and revisits
several critical concepts, such as world
literature, literary text, genre, style, fiction,
literary space, and cultural memory .
Marko JuVan works at the Research Center
of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
and teaches literary theory at the University
of Ljubljana . He is a member of the ICLA Committee
on Literary Theory and the Executive
Committee of the European Network for Comparative
Literary Studies . His recent publications
in English include Writing Literary History
(co-editor, with Darko Dolinar, Peter Lang
2006) as well as a study about history and poetics
of intertextuality in 2008 .
Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński • Tomasz Wicherkiewicz
(eds)
The Kashubs: Past and Present
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
VIII, 299 pp ., 1 coloured ill ., num . tables
Nationalisms across the Globe . Vol . 2
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Contents: Cezary Obracht-Prondzynski/
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz: Introduction • Józef
Borzyszkowski: A History of the Kashubs until
the End of Communism • Jerzy Treder: The
Kashubian Language and its Dialects: The
Range of Use • Jerzy Treder/Cezary Obracht-
Prondzyński: Kashubian Literature: The Phenomenon,
its History and its Social Dimension
• Tomasz Wicherkiewicz: Language Policy
and the Sociolinguistics of Kashubian •
Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński: Dilemmas of
Modern Kashubian Identity and Culture .
Cezary oBraCHt-pronDzyński is Professor
of Sociology at the University of Gdańsk,
Poland . He is vice-president of the Kashubian
Institute, a former editor-in-chief of Pomerania
and editorial secretary for Acta Cassubiana
. He is the author of numerous books and
articles on Kashubian identity and history .
toMasz wiCHerkiewiCz is Adjunct Professor
in Linguistics and Chair of Oriental
Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznań, Poland . He is a member of the Kashubian
Language Board and the Kashubian Institute
and carries out field research among
minority language communities in Europe
and Asia . He is the author of The Making of a
Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice,
Southern Poland.
Roman Sukač (ed .)
From Present to Past and Back
Papers on Baltic and Slavic Accentology
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
X, 244 pp ., num . tables and graphs
Potsdam Linguistic Investigations . Vol . 7
Editor in charge: Peter Kosta
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he Fifth International Workshop on Balto-
Slavic Accentology took place in 2009 at
the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic)
. This volume contains papers presented
at the workshop . The papers treat thematically
various aspects of Baltic and Slavic prosodic
development as well as provide synchronic
descriptions of individual Baltic and
Slavic languages and their dialects .
Contents: Katsiaryna Ackermann: On the
Prosody of Slavic Continuants of Indo-European
Verbal Adjectives in -to-, -no-, -lo- • Václav
Blažek: On the Accentuation of the Baltic Verb
• Rick Derksen: The Relative Chronology of East
Baltic Accentual Developments • Vladimir A .
Dybo: Balto-slawische Akzentologie und die
germanische Konsonantengemination (Zur
Verteidigung von F . Kluges Theorie) • Zbyněk
Holub: Quantity Patterns of a-stems and o-stems
in South-Western Czech Dialects (Especially in
the Doudleby Region) • Jay H . Jasanoff: Balto-
Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem
• Yuri Kleiner: Accentuation and Quantity •
Frederik Kortlandt: West Slavic Accentuation •
Orsat Ligorio: Concerning New Štokavian Retraction
• Michail Oslon: Über den Silbenakzent
in Juraj Križanićs Dialekt • Vytautas Rinkevičius:
Akzentuierung der altpreußischen suffigierten
Verba • Joseph Schallert: The Role of Sonority
and Quantity in the Morphophonemic Development
of Stress in Common Slavic Masculine
Barytona (AP a) in Balkan Slavic Dialects • Tobias
Scheer: Home-Made Western Slavic Vowel
Length • Bonifacas Stundžia: Some Remarks on
Accentual (Neo)mobility in Lithuanian • Roman
Sukač: Moravian Quantitative Paradigms
• Alexandra Ter-Avanesova: The Accentuation
of *a-/*ja-stems in East Russian Dialects • Zuzana
Topolińska: Main Conclusions of My Prosodic
Research • Tomasz Wiśniewski: Late Accent
Shifts and Fixing of Stress in West Slavic •
Steven Young: Winter’s Law and Baltic Ablaut .
roMan sukač, PhD, born in 1970, is an
assistant professor at the Silesian University
in Opava (Czech Republic) .
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