Close encounters essays on Russian literature
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Ars Rossika.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421037606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introductory Note / Gerigk, Horst-Jürgen
- A Glance at the Essays
- Fate, Freedom, and Responsibility
- Moral-Philosophical Subtext in Pushkin's The Stone Guest
- Turgenev's "Knock... Knock... Knock!..": The Riddle of the Story
- Polina and Lady Luck in Dostoevsky's The Gambler
- Pierre and Dolokhov at the Barrier: The Lesson of the Duel
- Chance and Design: Anna Karenina's First Meeting with Vronsky
- Breaking the Moral Barrier: Anna Karenina's Night Train to St. Petersburg
- Uzhas in the Subtext: Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych
- "What Time Is It? Where Are We Going?" Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard: The Story of a Verb
- Two Kinds of Beauty
- The Sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov
- The Defiled and Defiling "Physiognomy" of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
- Dostoevsky's "Anecdote from a Child's Life": A Case of Bifurcation
- The Triple Vision: Dostoevsky's "The Peasant Marey"
- The Making of a Russian Icon: Solzhenitsyn's "Matryona's Home"
- Critical Perspectives
- Dostoevsky's Concept of Reality and Its Representation in Art
- In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's Polemic with Dostoevsky
- Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and "Dostoevsky's Christian Declaration of Faith"
- Vyacheslav I. Ivanov's Poem "Nudus Salta!" and the Purpose of Art
- Poetry of Parting
- Intimations of Mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev's "In Parting there is a Lofty Meaning"
- The Poetry of Memory and the Memory of Poetry: Igor Severyanin's "No More Than a Dream"
- Supremum Vale: The Last Stanzas of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists
- From the Other Shore: Nabokov's Translation into Russian of Goethe's "Dedication" to Faust
- Index
