Before they were Titans : essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Before they were Titans essays on the early works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary g...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program funder (funder)
Other Authors: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951- editor, author of introduction, etc (editor), Grave, Ivan Platonovich, 1874-1960, cover designer (cover designer)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston, [Massachusetts] : Academic Studies Press 2015.
Series:Ars Rossika.
Subjects:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881.
1800 - 1899
Russian literature > 19th century > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421013106719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the Text
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Before They Were Titans / Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh
  • Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840's
  • I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk / Bagby, Lewis
  • II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double / Morson, Gary Saul
  • III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in "Another Man's Wife," "The Jealous Husband," and The Eternal Husband / Fusso, Susanne
  • IV. Dostoevsky's White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology / Peterson, Dale E.
  • V. Dostoevsky's Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova / Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh
  • Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850's
  • VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art / Miller, Robin Feuer
  • VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy's "The Raid" and Russian Journalism / Todd, William Mills / Weir, Justin
  • VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe / Knapp, Liza
  • IX. On Cultivating One's Own Garden with Other People's Labor: Serfdom in "A Landowner's Morning" / Lounsbery, Anne
  • X. Tolstoy's Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation / Vinitsky, Ilya
  • An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things / Emerson, Caryl
  • Index

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