Poetry Reader for Russian Learners

Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are coded by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students' interaction with authentic texts by means of a complete set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions for discussion, and a glossary. An ancillary Web site containing audio files for all poems can be found below.

About the author

Julia Titus is senior lector in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is the editor of the annotated reader The Meek One: A Fantastic Story, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Summary

"The purpose of this book is to introduce students of Russian to the great treasures of Russian poetry in the original, starting with Alexander Pushkin ... in the nineteenth century and moving chronologically into the twentieth century"--Page ix.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mario Moore (Illustration), Wayde McIntosh (Illustration), Moore Mario (Illustration), McIntosh Wayde (Illustration), Julia Titus (Editor), Titus Julia (Editor)
• Authors: Julia Titus
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 10.03.2015
• Subject: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780300184631
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18463-1
• Pages: 248
• Subjects: POETRY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Russian, Language readers, Poetry by individual poets, Russian, Poetry / poems by individual poets