1. The Annotated Bakhtin Bibliography. Ed. by Carol Adlam and David Shepherd. 2000. xxix + 413 pp.

ISBN 1-902653-32-7. Buy online here.

This is the first in a new series entitled MHRA Bibliographies. The Annotated Bakhtin Bibliography draws its material from, and is intended as a companion to, the on-line Analytical Database of Work by and about the Bakhtin Circle: maintained by the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield, this is the most extensive electronic collection of bibliographical and analytical data relating to the Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and the members of the ‘Bakhtin Circle’ (principally Mariia Iudina, Matvei Kagan, Pavel Medvedev, Lev Pumpianskii, Ivan Sollertinskii and Valentin Voloshinov).

The work of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle has had enormous international impact across a range of disciplines, including literary and cultural theory, philosophy, history, anthropology, linguistics and psychology. The Annotated Bakhtin Bibliography will provide scholars and students of Bakhtin with easy access to detailed information on research undertaken throughout the world in these and other fields.

The text of The Annotated Bakhtin Bibliography is in two parts. The first part comprises extensive bibliographical details of almost three hundred primary works (including information about translations and reprints). The second consists of almost one thousand entries containing analytical and annotated information about secondary literature dealing with Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle in over twenty languages, allowing the principal trends in the development of Bakhtin studies to be discerned and traced.

Consultation of the bibliography is facilitated by comprehensive name, title and subject indexes.

2. Goethe in English - A Bibliography of the Translations in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Derek Glass. 2005.

ISBN 1-904350-32-1. Buy online here.

This bibliography was commissioned by the English Goethe Society as a contribution to the celebration in 1999 of the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s birth. It sets out to record translations of his works into English that have been published in the twentieth century, up to and including material published in that anniversary year. It aims to serve as wide a constituency as possible, be it as a simple reference tool for tracing a translation of a given work or as a documentary source for specialized studies of Goethe reception in the English-speaking world.

The work records publications during the century, not merely translations that originated during this period. It includes numerous reprintings of older material, as well as some belated first publications of translations from the nineteenth century. It shows how frequent and how long enduring was the recourse of publishers and anthologists to a Goethe Victorian in diction, a signal factor in perceptions and misperceptions.

Derek Glass was putting the finishing touches to the bibliography at the time of his sudden death in March 2004. Colleagues at King’s College London have edited the final manuscript, which is now published jointly by the English Goethe Society and the Modern Humanities Research Association both as a worthy commemoration of Goethe’s anniversary and as a tribute to Derek himself.

"Not only the most extensive listing of twentieth-century publications of
Goethe in English translation, but also a major achievement in the field of literary bibliography ... This is a book of great clarity and judiciousness, which will be of use not only within German studies, but also to those concerned with reception and the processes of translation, both linguistic and cultural."

Ian Cooper, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28.2 (2005), 294-5.

"Glass hat ein bibliographisches Werk hinterlassen, das in der Dichte der Materialerfassung und methodischen Souveränität beispielhaft ist."

Siegfried Seifert, Informationsmittel (IFB) 06-2-247
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3. University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies 1907–2006: A Centennial Bibliography of Research in the British Isles.
Compiled and edited by Gregory Walker and J. S. G. Simmons. 2008.

ISBN 978-0-947623-80-7. Publishing March 2008.

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Beginning in a handful of universities in the early years of the last century, British and Irish postgraduate research on Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe grew rapidly in the post-war period. It has been given further impetus by the fall of communism and the multitude of political, cultural and economic consequences which ensued. This bibliography registers a full century of academic study devoted to a vitally important area of the world.

The bibliography records doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities – over 3,300 in all. It covers all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences as they relate to the area of Russia, the former USSR and Eastern Europe. It is believed to be the fullest and longest record of postgraduate research in any interdisciplinary field of study, and reveals a strikingly broad range of topics and treatments: from Pushkin to Putin; from the Cold War to the transition economies; from the Bogomils to Solidarity; and from health care to human rights.

Intended primarily for today’s researchers and students as a guide to their predecessors’ work, the bibliography is also a contribution to the history of scholarship in its concern with this part of the world. Through it we can trace academic preoccupations, national initiatives and shifts in intellectual focus as they were reflected in a hundred years of investigation and analysis.   

Entries show the author, title and subtitle of each thesis, with the awarding institution, degree awarded and date. Arrangement is by subject, subarranged by country/nation. Searching is aided by full author and subject indexes.

Dr Gregory Walker is a former Head of Slavonic and East European Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The late John S. G. Simmons, OBE, was Senior Research Fellow and Librarian, All Souls College, Oxford.