Books in the University of Texas Press Slavic Series series

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.

Six short works from the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union.

Focusing on Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold's postrevolutionary career, Paul Schmidt has assembled in this book journals, letters, reminiscences, and, of special interest, actual rehearsal notes that build a fascinating, intimate picture of Meyerhold

Essays by noted figures in the Prague Linguistic Circle.

This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914.