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

These ten critical essays, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century Russian literature, provide new readings on the works from the first decade of ltierary life of Doystoevsky and Tolstoy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-2017, editor, writer of introduction (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press [2015]
Colección:Ars Rossika.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746209006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Dostoevsky : works of the 1840s. I. Agency, desire, and fate in Poor folk / Lewis Bagby ; II. Me and my double : selfhood, consciousness, and empathy in The double / Gary Saul Morson ; III. Husbands and lovers : vaudeville conventions in "Another man's wife," "The jealous husband," and The eternal husband / Susanne Fusso ; IV. Dostoevsky's White nights : memoir of a Petersburg patholgy / Dale E. Peterson ; V. Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
  • Part. II. Tolstoy : works of the 1850s. VI. The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art / Robin Feuer Miller ; VII. Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism / William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir ; VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp ; IX. On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning" / Anne Lounsbery ; X. Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / Ilya Vinitsky
  • An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things / Caryl Emerson.