Modern Czech Studies. Brown Slavic Contributions, Volume XI.

This volume contains the following papers: "Texas Czech of Texas Czechs: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective on Language Use in a Dying Language Community" (Lida Dutkova); "Language Variation in an Immigrant Community: Language and Community Maintenance" (Eva Eckert); "Some Special Problems of Imperfective Derivation in Czech" (Charles Townsend); "Responses to the Linguistics Papers" (Mirjam Fried); "Betraying K: Milan Kundera Exile and the Translator's Art" (Deborah Garfinkle); "Kundera's Kafka, Kafka's Kundera" (Hana Pichova, Marjorie E. Rhine); "From Prague to New York City: Feminist Poetics of Iva Pekarkova" (Elena Sokol); "Responses to the Literature Papers" (Karen von Kunes); "Referentiality vs. Intertextuality: Transformations of Meanings and Ambiguity of Reference in Contemporary Czech Prose-Fiction" (Petr Bilek); "The Baroque Spirit of Czech Literature and the Legacy of Russian Arabesques: Neruda, Capek, Gogol, and Dostoevsky" (Alexander Levitsky); "West Slavic Influence on East Slavic Cyrillic Orthography Before the 12th Century: Novgorodan and Galician" (Robert Mathiesen); "A Conversational Analysis of Debate" (Masako Ueda); "Appendix: The Czech Teaching Resources and Materials Project" (Jeff Holdeman). References appear at the end of each chapter. (KFT)