Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal Volume 4 1991 written by Michael Denner and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual put out by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI. The current editor is Michael A. Denner, Stetson University.
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Download or read book Anna Karenina in Our Time written by Gary Saul Morson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy's characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy's ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of romantic love, the process of social reform, modernization, and the nature of good and evil. By investigating the ethical, philosophical, and social issues with which Tolstoy grappled, Morson finds in Anna Karenina powerful connections with the concerns of today. He proposes that Tolstoy's effort to see the world more wisely can deeply inform our own search for wisdom in the present day. The book offers brilliant analyses of Anna, Karenin, Dolly, Levin, and other characters, with a particularly subtle portrait of Anna's extremism and self-deception. Morson probes Tolstoy's important insights (evil is often the result of negligence; goodness derives from small, everyday deeds) and completes the volume with an irresistible, original list of One Hundred and Sixty-Three Tolstoyan Conclusions.
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Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal Volume I 1988 written by Michael Denner and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual put out by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI. The current editor is Michael A. Denner, Stetson University.
Download or read book Queer Tolstoy written by Javier Sethness Castro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychoanalysis, political history, LGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Using a psychobiographical framework, Sethness Castro uncovers profoundly queer dimensions in Tolstoy’s life experiences and art. Deftly contributing to the progressive and radical analysis of gender and sexuality, this book examines how Tolstoy’s erotic dissidence informed his anarchist politics, anti-militarist ideals, and voluminous literary production. Sethness Castro analyzes the influence of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Cervantes, Rousseau, Kant, Herzen, Proudhon, Chernyshevsky, and his mother Marya Volkonskaya on the artist's writings. Furthermore, he details Tolstoy's emblematic linking of LGBTQ+ desire with moral and erotic self-determination and resistance to Tsarist despotism—especially in War and Peace. This book is vital reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and Russian history. Chapter 2 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
Download or read book Tolstoy s Art and Thought 1847 1880 written by Donna Tussing Orwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral certainty unfolded, creating fundamental differences among the great novels of the "pre-crisis" period. Distinguished by its historical emphasis, this book demonstrates that the great novelist, who had once seen a fundamental harmony between human conscience and nature's vitality, began eventually to believe in a dangerous rift between the two: during the years discussed here, Tolstoy moved gradually from a celebration of life to instruction about its moral dimensions. Paying special attention to Tolstoy's reading of Rousseau, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and the Russian thinker N. N. Strakhov, Orwin also explores numerous other influences on his thought. In so doing, she shows how his philosophical and emotional conflicts changed form but continued unabated--until, with his religious conversion of 1880, he surrendered his long attempt to make sense of life through art alone.
Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal Volume III 1990 written by Michael Denner and published by . This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual put out by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI. The current editor is Michael A. Denner, Stetson University.
Download or read book Tolstoy s Pacifism written by Colm McKeogh and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the most influential, challenging, and provocative pacifist of his generation. The most famous person alive at the dawn of the twentieth century, his international stature came not only from his great novels but from his rejection of violence and the state. Tolstoy was a strict pacifist in the last three decades of his life, and wrote at length on a central issue of politics, namely, the use of violence to maintain order, to promote justice, and to ensure the survival of society, civilization, and the human species. He unreservedly rejected the use of physical force to these or any ends. Tolstoy was a religious pacifist rather than an ethical or political one. His pacifism was rooted not in a moral doctrine or political theory but in his straightforward reading of the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. Despite his fame, Tolstoy's pacifism remains insufficiently studied. A hundred years after his death, Tolstoy is a figure unfamiliar in political science, encountered, if at all, as the author of hortatory quotations on the wrongness of political violence or of allegiance to the state. This work of political science offers an account of Leo Tolstoy as a Christian thinker on political violence. It presents Tolstoy's pacifism as a striking case of the impact of religious idealism on political attitudes. The Russian novelist offers an instructive case study in Christian pacifism and in the attractions and failings of strict, literalist, and simplistic religious approaches to the many and complex issues of politics. Today, the political implications of religious fundamentalism, scriptural literalism, and Christian faith are very much live issues and the contemporary discussion of them should not omit pacifism. In this first study of Tolstoy's pacifism by a political scientist, Colm McKeogh unravels the complexities of Tolstoy's writings on Christianity and political violence. This work serves scholars of political science by bringing together relevant extracts from Tolstoy's writings and providing a succinct treatment of the core political issues. It establishes that Tolstoy's stance is primarily one of non-violence rather than non-resistance. McKeogh's work then assesses the internal consistency of Tolstoy's pacifism, its grounding in the Gospels and Christian tradition, its political and anti-political implications, and the meaning in life that it offers. It finds that Tolstoy does great service to the pacifist cause (with his defense of peace as close to the centre of Christ's message) and yet harm to it too (by divorcing peace from the love that is even more central to Christ's message). Tolstoy's political and religious legacy is not that of a prophet, a social activist, a moral reformer, a political idealist or pacifist theorist but that of a dissident. Tolstoy stands as one of the great dissidents of twentieth-century Russia, a man who condemned the system utterly and who refused to perform any act that could be construed as compromising with it. He left behind a powerful statement of the urgent human need to connect our daily living to a deep and fulfilling conception of the meaning of life. Tolstoy's Pacifism is important for political science, Christian ethics, literature, and Russian collections.
Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal Volume VI 1993 written by Michael Denner and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual put out by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI. The current editor is Michael A. Denner, Stetson University.
Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal written by Michael Denner and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual put out by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI.The current editor is Michael A. Denner, Stetson University.We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to Tolstoy scholarship. In addition to articles, the journal publishes review articles, roundtable discussions, news and events, notices of work in progress, special reports and book reviews. We also welcome suggestions for teaching Tolstoy, including syllabi, mixed media, titles, combinations with other writers, angles of all kinds. Full credit will be given for any ideas, and, with the permission of those who submit, addresses will be provided so that readers can contact them directly for details or suggestions.
Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal Vol 28 2016 written by Michael Denner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual Subscribers: Enter code 3PP6WW6Y to receive individual subscriber rates ($35). ASEEES members, please contact [email protected] for ASEEES special pricing rate code ($25).** Tolstoy Studies Journal is a refereed annual published by the Tolstoy Society of North America. The journal was founded in 1988 by Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester, who edited volumes I-III (1988-90). Amy Mandelker, City University of New York, Graduate Center, took over the role of Editor from 1991-93 and published volumes IV-VI. The late Charles Isenberg, Reed College, edited volumes VII-VIII (1994-96). Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto, edited volumes IX-XVI.
Download or read book Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky written by Anna A. Berman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna A. Berman’s book brings to light the significance of sibling relationships in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Relationships in their works have typically been studied through the lens of erotic love in the former, and intergenerational conflict in the latter. In close readings of their major novels, Berman shows how both writers portray sibling relationships as a stabilizing force that counters the unpredictable, often destructive elements of romantic entanglements and the hierarchical structure of generations. Power and interconnectedness are cast in a new light. Berman persuasively argues that both authors gradually come to consider siblinghood a model of all human relations, discerning a career arc in each that moves from the dynamics within families to a much broader vision of universal brotherhood.
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Download or read book Jewish Theatre written by Edna Nahshon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers for these questions, "Jewish Theatre: A Global View," contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the Russian author.
Download or read book Medical Storyworlds written by Elena Fratto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though often seen as scientific or objective, medicine has a fundamentally narrative aspect. Much like how an author constructs meaning around fictional events, a doctor or patient narrates the course of an illness and treatment. In what ways have literary and medical storytelling intersected with and shaped each other? In Medical Storyworlds, Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century—a period when novelists were experimenting with narrative form and the modern medical establishment was taking shape. She traces how Russian writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to contemporary medical and public health prescriptions, placing them in dialogue with French and Italian authors including Romains and Svevo and such texts as treatises by Paul Broca and Cesare Lombroso. In nuanced readings of these works, Fratto reveals how authors and characters question the rhetoric and authority of medicine and public health in telling stories of mortality, illness, and well-being. In so doing, she argues, they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will. Bridging the medical humanities, European literary studies, and Slavic studies, Medical Storyworlds shows how narrative theory and canonical literary texts offer a new lens on today’s debates in medical ethics and bioethics.
