Introduction to Yugoslav Literature: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by BrankoMikasinovich; Dragan Milivojević; Vasa MihailovichReview by: Celia HawkesworthThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 53, No. 131 (Apr., 1975), p. 317Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4207073 .

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'a happy heterogeneous character' (p. 244) and now- there is no reason to worry about 'cosmopolitical (sic) or eclectic influences' (p. 246) threatening its integrity. These are only random examples the number of which could be increased at will. One can only hope that the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will be more careful in the future in its by no means easy task of presenting the work of Hungarian scholars to the English- speaking world. Cambridge GEORGE GOMORI

Mikasinovich, Branko; Milivojevic, Dragan; and Mihailovich, Vasa (eds). Introduction to Yugoslav Literature: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry. Twayne, New York, 1973. xiii + 647 pp.

THIS substantial volume presents a survey of Serbian, Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian literature in English. It is divided into four parts, with a short historical outline as an introduction to each national section. These introductions repeat standard assessments of authors handed down from early 20th-century literary histories and more recent generalised surveys, incorporating the familiar ill-defined usage of concepts such as 'Romantic' and 'Symbolist', and making no attempt to re-examine the literatures of Yugoslavia in the light of new developments. While ack- nowledging that the bulk of the volume has obviously imposed severe restrictions on the possible scope of the introductions, I feel it is unfortunate that greater attention has not been paid to Serbian and Croatian writing in particular since the Second World War. One symptom of the editors' apparent readiness to accept standard accounts of the various literatures is the fact that a place has not been found for one of the major post-war novelists, the Bosnian Mesa Selimovic. The translations, from various dates and numerous hands, vary greatly in quality. Some of the prose extracts are very readable and several poems have been rendered with great care and considerable success. The volume will undoubtedly be welcomed by American and English readers wishing to acquire a rapid impression of the various literatures. London CELIA HAWKESWORTH

Tschizewskij, D. (ed.). Slavische Barockliteratur. Vol. I. Forum Slavicum, Band 23. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, I970. I26 pp. Index. DM 28.

THE editor begins this collection of five essays with 'Das Barock in der russischen Literatur', a useful survey of the subject from Avvakum and Polotsky to Petrov. In the second essay, 'Die Tradition des ostroumie und das acumen bei Simeon Polockij', Professor Renate Lachmann shows how the notion of verbal wit made its way from West European and Polish, typically Jesuit, manuals into the textbooks on poetics and rhetoric written by Prokopovich and Lomonosov respectively. Professor D. Donat's 'Comenius-Studien I. Sakrale Formeln im Schrifttum des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts' describes the short formulae, expressing the metaphysical unity of all things, which Comenius and his learned contemporaries of

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