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Alenka Barber-Kersovan. Vom "Punk-Frühling" zum "Slowenischen Frühling": Der Beitrag des slowenischen Punk zur Demontage des sozialistischen Wertesystems. Hamburg: Reinhold Krämer Verlag, 2005. 577 pp., 44.90 euros ($52.53, paper). ISBN: 3-89622-073-X.
Reviewed by Vera Tiefenthaler, Vienna (19 May 2006)
Ales^ Berger, ed. The Key Witnesses: The Younger Slovene Prose at the Turn of the Millennia (= Litterae Slovenicae 102). Ljubljana: Slovene Writers' Association, 2003. 180 pp., ISBN: 961-91010-3-0.
Reviewed by Alenka Z^bogar, University of Ljubljana (6 Dec 2003)
Ales^ Berger, ed. Ten Slovenian Poets of the Nineties (= Litterae Slovenicae 100). Ljubljana: Slovene Writers' Association, 2002. 103 pp., ISBN: 961-91010-0-6.
Reviewed by Christopher Merrill, University of Iowa (8 Oct, 15 Nov 2003)
Translator's Response (28 Apr 2004)
Michael Biggins. "Against Ideologies: Vladimir Bartol and Alamut" pp. 383-390. In: Vladimir Bartol. Alamut, Seattle: Scala House Press, 2004. 391 pp., ISBN: 0972028730.
Reviewed by Miran Hladnik, University of Ljubljana (21 Feb 2005)
Andrej Blatnik. The Law of Desire; Ales^ C^ar. Dog's Tango; Kajetan Kovic^. Kaleidoscope; Maja Novak. Feline Plague; Andrej E. Skubic. Fuz^ine Blues; Ales^ Steger. Protuberances [brochures]. Translated by Tamara Soban, Tom Loz^ar, Ana Jelnikar, Tom Priestly, Lili Potpara, Nikolai Jeffs, Richard George, Brian Henry, Matthew Zapruder, Janko Lozar, Evald Flisar, Andrew Wachtel, Anne Talvaz, Peter Richards, and Ales^ S^teger. Ljubljana: Student Publishing House (S^tudentska Zaloz^ba), no dates.
Reviewed by John K. Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University (2 Oct 2004)
Daniele Conversi. German-Bashing and the Breakup of Yugoslavia (= The Donald W. Treadgold Papers 16). Seattle: The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, The University of Washington. 1998. 88 pp.
Reviewed by Patrick Moore, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (6 Dec 2003)
John Corsellis & Marcus Ferrar. Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II. London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 2005. xi + 276 pp., £24.50 ($47.97) (cloth). ISBN: 1-85043-840-0.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, University of Ljubljana, (21 Aug 2007)
John K. Cox. Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties. Postcommunist States and Nations. New York: Routledge, 2005. 240pp. $113.00 (cloth). ISBN: 0415274311.
Reviewed by Brian Poz^un, Fulbright Fellow to Slovenia, 2004-05 (19 Feb 2006)
William W. Derbyshire, with Marta Pirnat-Greenberg. A Learner's Dictionary of Slovene: With Words in Their Inflected Forms. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2002. 228 pp., $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-89357-300-0.
Reviewed by Meta Klinar, European Commission (23 Feb 2004)
William W. Derbyshire, with Marta Pirnat-Greenberg. A Learner's Dictionary of Slovene: With Words in Their Inflected Forms. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2002. 228 pp., $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-89357-300-0.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, Indiana University (23 Feb 2004)
Dejan Djokic'. Yugloslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992. London: Hurst & Co., 2003. 356 pp., ISBN: 1-85065-663-0.
Reviewed by Christian A. Nielsen, Research Officer, ICTY (5 Aug, 2 Sept 2003)
Author's Response (4 Oct, 15 Nov 2003)
Darko Dolinar and Marko Juvan, eds., Kako pisati literarno zgodovino danes? Razprave (Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2003), 396 pp.
Reviewed by Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana University (23 Feb 2004)
Darko Dolinar and Marko Juvan, eds., Kako pisati literarno zgodovino danes? Razprave (Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2003), 396 pp.
Reviewed by Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State University (22 Mar 2004)
Marjan Drnovs^ek, ed. Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Slovenian Migration. Ljubljana: ZRC Publishing, 2007. 204 pp., (paper). ISBN: 9789612540432.
Reviewed by Anne Urbancic, University of Toronto (29 July 2008)
Joz^e Faganel with Darko Dolinar, eds., France Pres^eren--kultura--Evropa (Ljubljana: Zaloz^ba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2002), 392 pp.
Reviewed by Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana University (23 Feb 2004)
Evald Flisar. Collected Plays, I. Introduced by the author and Susan Smith Nash. Translated (or written in English) by the author. New York: Texture Press, 2006. 623 pp. (illus.), ISBN: 0971206147.
Reviewed by John K. Cox, North Dakota State University (4 July 2008)
Evald Flisar, ed. From the Heart of Europe: Anthology of Contemporary Slovenian Writing. Guilderland, NY and Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2007. 217 pp., (paper). ISBN-10 097120618X, ISBN-13: 978-0971206182.
Reviewed by Alenka Z^bogar, University of Ljubljana(29 July 2008)
Irena Gantar Godina, ed.
Intelektualci v disapori/Intellectuals in diaspora. Ljubljana: Zaloz^ba ZRC, 1999. 248 pp. (paper). ISBN:
9616182730.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, Indiana University, Bloomington (8 Jun 2002)
James Gow & Cathie Carmichael. Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State in the New Europe. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. xi + 234 pp. ISBN: 0253336635.
Reviewed by Carole Rogel, Ohio State University (8 Jun 2002)
James Gow & Cathie Carmichael. Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State in the New Europe. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. xi + 234 pp. ISBN: 0253336635.
Reviewed by Tom Loz^ar, Vanier College (9 Feb 2003)
David C. Hammack, Diane L. Grabowski, & John J. Grabowski, eds. Identity, Conflict, and Cooperation: Central Europeans in Cleveland, 1850-1930. Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society, 2002. ix + 364 pp. ISBN: 0911704558.
Reviewed by June G. Alexander, University of Cincinnati (16 Aug 2005)
Erika Harris. Nationalism and Democratisation: Politics of Slovakia and Slovenia. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2002. 237pp. ISBN: 0-7546-1890-0.
Reviewed by Joseph Derdzinski, University of Denver (6 July, 15 Nov 2003)
Marko Jesens^ek. The Slovene Language in the Alpine and Pannonian Language Area. The History of the Slovene Language.Translated by Heather Pirjevec; proofread by Brian Halliday. Kraków: Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych UNIVERSITAS, 2005. 365 pp., 36.60 zl. [= $11.58] (paper). ISBN: 8324205772.
Reviewed by Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas (22 April, 19 May 2006)
Davorin Krac^un. Economics of Transition: Stabilization and Economic Performance. Maribor: Ins^titut za ekonomsko diagnozo in prognozo, Univerza v Mariboru, 2000. 81pp. ISBN: 9616396005.
Reviewed by Peter Mikek, University of Maribor (9 Feb 2003)
Margret Kreidl. Hitri streli, resnic^ne povedi. Translated by Urs^ka P. C^erne. Ljubljana: Drus^tvo Apokalipsa, 2005. 49 pp., €6.26 ($9.29) (paper). ISBN 961-6314-73-4.
Reviewed by Tom M.S. Priestly, Edmonton, Alberta (20 Apr 2008)
Simon Krek, ed. Veliki anglesko-slovenski slovar Oxford. Vol. 1 A-K. Ljubljana: Drz^avna zaloz^ba Slovenije, 2005. 1035 pp., SIT 52,500 [= $280] (2 vol.) (cloth). ISBN: 86-341-1559-3.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, University of Ljubljana (23 June 2005)
Author's Response (19 Feb 2006)
Rada Lec^ic^. Slovenski glagol: oblikoslovni priroc^nik in slovar slovenskih glagolov / Slovene Verb: A Morphological Manual and Dictionary of Slovene Verbs. Ljubljana: Zaloz^ba ZRC, 2004. 268 pp., SIT 4,070 [= $21.00] (paper). ISBN: 961-6500-43-0.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, University of Ljubljana (3 Aug 2006)
Andreja Markovic^, Danus^a S^kapin, Katarina Rigler S^ilc, S^pela Kajic^ Kmetic^. Slovenska beseda v z^ivo: uc^benik za zac^etni tec^aj slovens^c^ine kot drugega/tujega jezika.
Andreja Markovic^, Vesna Haluz^an, Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, Danus^a S^kapin, Gita Vuga.
S slovens^c^ino nimam tez^av: uc^benik za kratke tec^aje slovens^c^ine: nadaljevalna stopnja.
Natas^a Pirih Svetina, Andreja Ponikvar. A, B, C ... 1, 2, 3, gremo ... Uc^benik za zac^etnike na kratkih tec^ajih slovens^c^ine kot drugega/tujega jezika.
Andreja Markovic^, Danus^a S^kapin, Mihaela Knez, Nina S^oba. Slovenska beseda v z^ivo 2. Uc^benik za nadaljevalni tec^aj slovens^c^ine kot drugega/tujega jezika.
Ljubljana: Center za slovens^c^ino kot drugi/tuji jezik pri Oddelku za slovenistiko Filozofske fakultete, 2002-2004.
Reviewed by Marta Pirnat-Greenberg, University of Kansas (16 Feb, 21 Aug 2007)
Viktor Meier. Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise Trans. Sabrina P. Ramet. London and New York: Routlege, 1999. x + 279 pp. ISBN: 0415185955 (cloth), 0415185963 (paper).
Reviewed by Carole Rogel, Ohio State University (8 Jun 2002)
Pavle Merkù. Slovenska krajevna imena v Italiji. Priroc^nik/Toponimi sloveni in Italia. Manuale. Trst/Trieste: Mladika, 1999. 123 pp.
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, Indiana University, Bloomington (8 Jun 2002)
Metod M. Milac^. Resistance, Imprisonment & Forced Labor -- A Slovene Student in World II [= Studies in Modern European History, Vol. 47]. New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002. 260pp. ISBN: 0-8204-5781-7.
Reviewed by Dimitrij Rupel, Ljubljana (6 July, 15 Nov 2003)
Boris Mlakar. Slovensko Domobranstvo 1943-1945. Ustanovitev, organizacija, idejno ozadje. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica. 2003. 544 pp. ISBN 961-213-114-7.
Reviewed by Paul Borstnik, Voice of America, Retired (9 Feb 2005)
Jan Morris. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 208 pp. ISBN: 0743201280.
Reviewed by Tom Lozar, Vanier College (9 Feb 2003)
Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui, eds. Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, 2004. 446 pp., $28.00 (paper). ISBN: 0-8213-5718-2.
Reviewed by Brian Poz^un (28 May 2004)
Francek Mukic^. Porabsko knjiz^noslovensko-madz^arski slovar. Szombathely: Zveza Slovencev na Madz^arskem, 2005. VI + 445 pp. (hardcover). ISBN: 963-217-762-2.
Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas, (21 Aug 2007)
Heinz Dieter Pohl. Kärnten -- deutsche und slowenische Namen. Koros^ka -- slovenska in nems^ka imena. Aus Anlass der 80. Wiederkehr der Kärntner Volksabstimmung vom 10. Oktober 1920. Kommentiertes zweisprachiges Verzeichnis der Siedlungs-, Berg- und Gewässernamen. [= Studia Carinthiaca, Band XIX; Österreichische Namenforschung 29 (2000) 2-3]. Vienna: Edition Praesens, Klagenfurt/Celovec: Hermagoras/Mohorjeva, 2000. 150 pp. ISBN: 385013802X.
Reviewed by Tom Priestly, University of Alberta (8 Jun 2002)
Irene Portis-Winner. Semiotics of Peasants in Transition: Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America. Durham, North Carolina: Duke UP. 2002. IXI, 188 pp. ISBN: 0822328275 0822328410.
Reviewed by Arthur J. Vidich, New School University (9 Feb 2003)
Brian J. Poz^un. Shedding the Balkan Skin: Slovenia's Quiet Emergence in the New Europe. Central Europe Review, 2000. (e-book available at www.ce-review.org) 100 pp.
Reviewed by Tom Loz^ar, Vanier College (9 Feb 2003)
Sabrina P. Ramet. Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovo. Third edition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. vii + 374 pp. ISBN: 0813390346.
Reviewed by Carole Rogel, Ohio State University (8 Jun 2002)
Michael Reichmayr. Ardigata! Krucinal! Ein slowenisches Schimpfwörterbuch, basierend auf Arbeiten von Josef Matl (1897-1974) zum deutsch-slawischen Sprach- und Kulturkontakt. Graz & Bad Radkersburg: Artikel-VII-Kultur-Verein für Steiermark & Pavelhaus/Pavlova his^a, 2003. 423 pp. ISBN: 3-9501-5673-9.
Reviewed by Tom Priestly, University of Alberta (16 Aug 2005)
Harold B. Segel. The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. 776 pp., ISBN: 0231114044.
Reviewed by Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana University (28 Sept, 2 Oct 2004)
Louis Sell. Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 430 pp., (cloth) ISBN: 0822328550, (paper) ISBN: 082233223X.
Reviewed by Holly Case, Stanford University (10 Nov, 15 Nov 2003, 18 Feb 2004)
Zlatko Skrbis. Long-distance Nationalism: Diasporas, Homelands and Identities. (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series). Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999. 201 pp. ISBN: 1859726720.
Reviewed by John K. Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University (9 Feb 2003)
Katarina Tepesh. Escape from Despair: A Croatian Family's Survival. College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Inc., 2007, 203 pp., $15.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-60264-041-2.
Reviewed by Mary Grabar, Georgia Perimeter College (20 Apr 2008)
Jaka Terpinc, ed. The Slovenia Times. S^kofja Loka: TIP d.o.o., 2003. Vol 1. On-Line at http://www.sloveniatimes.com
Reviewed by Donald F. Reindl, Indiana University, Bloomington (13 Aug, 15 Nov 2003)
Anna Valencic. Petunia in an Onion Patch / Petunia en un cebollar. Santiago, Chile: RIL Editores, 2003. 106 pp., CLP 5,950 ($10.33). ISBN: 956-284-252-5.
Reviewed by Mary Graber, Clayton College & State University (31 Jan 2005)
Emil Vlajki. The New Totalitarian Society and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Osvaldo Croci and Brian K. MacLean. Ottawa: Legas, 1999. 195 pp. ISBN: 0921252943.
Reviewed by Tom Lozar, Vanier College (8 Jun 2002)
Eduard Winkler. Wahlrechtsformen und Wahlen in Triest 1905-1909: Eine Analyse der politischen Partizipation in einer multinationalen Stadtregion der Habsburgermonarchie. Südosteuropäische Arbeiten 105. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000. 405 pp. ISBN: 3486564862.
Reviewed by Christian A. Nielsen, Columbia University (8 Jun 2002)
Franc Zadravec. Slovenski roman 20. stoletja. Prvi analatic^ni del. Murska Sobota: Pomurska zaloz^ba; Ljubljana: Znanstveni ins^titut Filozofske fakultete, 1997. 378 pp., ISBN: 86-7195-233-9.
Slovenski roman 20. stoletja. Drugi analatic^ni del in nekaj sintez. Murska Sobota: Pomurska zaloz^ba; Ljubljana: Znanstveni ins^titut Filozofske fakultete, 2002. 376 pp. ISBN: 86-7195-355-6.
Reviewed by Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State University (17 Apr 2005)
Jernej Zupanc^ic^. Slovenci v Avstriji. The Slovenes in Austria. Ljubljana: Ins^titut za geografijo -- Institute of Geography, 1999. (Geographica Slovenica 32). 246 pp. ISBN 9619044347.
Reviewed by Christian Promitzer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (8 Jun 2002)
Alenka Z^bogar. Kratka proza v literarni vedi in s^olski praksi. Ljubljana: Zavod Republike Slovenije za s^olstvo, 2007. 126 pp. 20.45 Euros [= $27.33] (paper). ISBN-10 961-234-592-9, ISBN-13 978-961-234-592-1.
Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State University, (21 Aug 2007)
Janja Z^itnik & Helga Glus^ic^, eds. Slovenska izseljenska knjiz^evnost 1, 2, 3. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Zaloz^ba ZRC Rokus, 1999. 400 + 484 + 407 pp. ISBN: 9616182692, 9616182749, 9616182765.
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Janja Z^itnik & Helga Glus^ic^, eds. Slovenska izseljenska knjiz^evnost 1. Evropa, Azija, Australija.. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Zaloìba ZRC Rokus, 1999. 400 pp. ISBN: 9616182692.
Reviewed by Alenka Z^bogar, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (8 Jun 2002)
Janja Z^itnik & Helga Glus^ic^, eds. Slovenska izseljenska knjiz^evnost 2, Severna Amerika. Ljubljana: Zaloz^ba ZRC, Rokus. 484 pp. ISBN: 9616182749.
Reviewed by Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (8 Jun 2002)
Janja Z^itnik & Helga Glus^ic^, eds. Slovenska izseljenska knjiz^evnost 3, Juz^na Amerika. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Zaloz^ba ZRC Rokus, 1999. 407 pp. ISBN: 9616182765.
Reviewed by Alojzija Zupan Sosic^, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (8 Jun 2002)
Created 8 June 2002
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