Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy

ISBN-13: 9780521514910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 268 str.

Donna Tussing Orwin

Opis

Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this 2010 volume provides a snapshot of scholarship on Tolstoy.

Recenzje

'… moving essay on the Tolstoy–Strakhov correspondence …' James Meek, London Review of Books

Spis treści

Introduction Donna Tussing Orwin; 1. Tolstoy and music Caryl Emerson; 2. Sublime vision and self derision: the aesthetics of death in Tolstoy Andreas Schönle; 3. Tolstoy's peaceable kingdom Robin Feuer Miller; 4. Leo Tolstoy: pacifist, patriot, and molodets Donna Tussing Orwin; 5. Leo Tolstoy's correspondence with Nikolai Strakhov: the dialogue on faith Irina Paperno; 6. The worm of doubt: Prince Andrei's death and Russian spiritual awakening of the 1860s Ilya Vinitsky; 7. Tolstoy's spirituality Gary Hamburg; 8. Tracking the English novel in Anna Karenina: who wrote the English novel that Anna reads? Edwina Cruise; 9. Violence and the role of drama in the late Tolstoy: The Realm of Darkness Justin Weir; 10. What men quote by: Tolstoy, wise sayings, and moral tale Gary Saul Morson; 11. The 'proletarian lord': Leo Tolstoy's image during the Russian revolutionary period Michael J. Denner; Works cited; Index.