Challenging traditional concepts of poetry and narrative prose, the prose poem is by nature a "subversive" form-and as such has drawn extensive interest in literature and criticism during the past two decades. Russian Minimalism is the first book to apply the theoretical debate on the nature of the prose poem to the history of Russian literature. In it Adrian Wanner uses the notion of minimalism, borrowed from the realm of American visual arts, as a critical tool for a historical investigation of the genesis and development of the Russian prose miniature, going back to the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The paradoxical genre of the prose poem, developed by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, provides Wanner with an overarching theoretical rubric for a variety of works of Russian literature, ranging from Ivan Turgenev's "Poems in Prose" to a host of decadent, symbolist, realist, and futurist miniatures, including Fedor Sologub's "Little Fairy Tales," Aleksei Remizov's dreams, Vasilii Kandinskii's prose poems, and Daniil Kharms' absurdist ministories. His book demonstrates how the negativity inherent in the form of the prose poem transformed the overwrought lyricism of fin de siècle prose into the ascetic starkness of the twentieth-century minimalist anti-story.

Petrova K., Aleksova K., Osenova P.. 

Contrastivamente, la autora somete a análisis y descripciόn las formas átonas de los pronombres posesivos, en español y en búlgaro, resaltando la misiόn del hablante por subrayar la relaciόn entre el sujeto del evento y su complemento, directo o indirecto, expresado por tales deícticos.

The article examines the leading trends in the formation of prefixal nouns in Czech and Bulgarian. These are the tendencies of internationalization and nationalization (autochthonization). The most productive native and borrowed prefixes and prefixoids are analyzed together with the meanings they have in substantival neologisms.

The article considers the interaction of tense and aspect with verbs expressing hypothetic modality in Modern Greek, Modern Bulgarian and Modern Polish (as a representative of Northern Slavic) with a special attention to the paradoxical ability of the Greek and the Bulgarian modal imperfect to denote momentary actions or their result. It claims that in the past tenses the meaning of the Greek verbal stem is more temporal and modal and less aspectual, while in the future tense, in the imperative and in subjunctive constructions it shows a considerable semantic symmetry with Bulgarian and Northern Slavic verbal aspect.

The article offers a discussion and analysis of the dynamic processes in recent developments of Russian vocabulary in comparison with Czech. A number of conclusions are reached in a contrastive perspective about the tendencies in the two languages especially with a vew to neologisms.

The introduction reviews contrastive studies of languages in contact, especially related languages, including the contrastive studies of Croatian and Slovene. The study offers a contrastive description of these two languages on the following levels: phonetic-phonological (the system of vowels, sonants, consonants, stress); morphological (case, comparison of adjectives, verb forms); syntactic (place of clitics); lexical (homonyms) and orthographic (systems of writing). The closeness of the two languages strongly requires the contrastive approach in studying and describing them (contrastive tables). This is the only way to prevent and correct the persistent interference errors on all levels. Finally, theoretical and applied results of contrastive analysis are adduced, which might help not only the successful description and teaching of Croatian and Slovene, but of the other Slavic languages as well.