Joint Committee of Eastern Europe (XJC)

“Barac’s History of Yugoslav Literature…has served very well more than a generation of students in this country and remains the best short history of the Yugoslav literatures available in English.”
— Albert B. Lord, Harvard University

“The main purpose of this book I is to be an informative handbook, and it serves its purpose well. It is objective and convenient.”
— Thomas Eekman, U.C.L.A.

“We need books of this quality for all the East European countries. Barac was a distinguished scholar, he clearly enunciated the basic issues and themes in South Slavic literature...

Publisher: Michigan Slavic Publications

Year of Publication: 1980

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

# of Pages: 482

Price: $32.00

ISBN: 0-930042-32-8

Format: Hardcover

Series Name / Number: Joint Committee of Eastern Europe [XJC] / 6

Published under the auspices of The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council by Michigan Slavic Publications.

This book is written with a twofold aim: to provide information for the English reading public interested in Southeast European affairs, particularly in the cultural field; and to serve as a textbook for students of the Yugoslav literatures. In recent times, the history of these literatures has been presented in only one book in the English language: Antun Barac's Yugoslav Literature. This work, however, ...