Books written by Sibelan Forrester
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Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze
One highly placed representative of a leading British publishing company described post - 1989 Poland to me as a " gold ... Finally , the spread of English is also - perhaps primarily - to be found in the macrostructures of business ...
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Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
Collection of twenty-nine fairy tales featuring Baba Yaga that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales from the lesser-known nineteenth-century collection of Ivan Khudiakov, along with images ...
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Engendering Slavic Literatures
Adam Mickiewicz's immensely popular poem “ The Death of the Colonel ” ( “ Śmierć pułkownika ” ) , written in 1832 , pays tribute to Plater's heroic virtue by promoting her from captain to colonel . It even ushers her into the timeless ...
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Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
The stories are enriched with many wonderful illustrations of Baba Yaga, some old (traditional "lubok" woodcuts), some classical (the marvelous images from Victor Vasnetsov or Ivan Bilibin), and some quite recent or solicited specifically ...
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A Companion to Marina Cvetaeva: Approaches to a Major Russian Poet
... Biography.65 The growing body of translations and artistic responses to Marina Cvetaeva's poetryis itself becominga ... The Silk, the Shears and Marina, or, About Biography. Trans. Sibelan Forrester and Celia Hawkesworth. Evanston, IL ...
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Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation
The introductory analysis and the fifteen essays in this collection critically interrogate complex relations between transnational and translation studies, bringing to this dialogue a much needed gender perspective.