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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951- editor, author of introduction, etc (editor), Grave, Ivan Platonovich, 1874-1960, cover designer (cover designer)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, [Massachusetts] : Academic Studies Press 2015.
Colección:Ars Rossika.
Materias:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881.
1800 - 1899
Russian literature > 19th century > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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