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Book Tolstoy Studies Journal Volume III  1990

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.

Book Tolstoy Studies Journal

Download or read book Tolstoy Studies Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolstoy Studies Journal  Volume VI  1993

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.

Book The Woman Question in Nineteenth Century English  German and Russian Literature

Download or read book The Woman Question in Nineteenth Century English German and Russian Literature written by Kathryn L. Ambrose and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers – as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space – makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries.

Book Tolstoy Studies Journal  Volume I  1988

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.

Book Queer Tolstoy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Javier Sethness Castro
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-02-16
  • ISBN : 1000833941
  • Pages : 265 pages

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.

Book Stanford Slavic Studies

Download or read book Stanford Slavic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tolstoy Studies Journal

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  • Author : Michael Denner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-12-31
  • ISBN : 9781470131401
  • Pages : 120 pages

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.

Book Tolstoy

Download or read book Tolstoy written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Book War and Peace

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  • Author : Leo Tolstoy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-10-14
  • ISBN : 0191612545
  • Pages : 1392 pages

Download or read book War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them. In this definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader. In addition this edition includes a new introduction by Amy Mandelker, revised and expanded notes, lists of fictional and historical characters, a chronology of historical events, five maps, and Tolstoy's essay 'Some Words about War and Peace'.

Book Tolstoy s Art and Thought  1847 1880

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.

Book Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time

Download or read book Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time written by Inessa Medzhibovskaya and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience as a massive philosophical and religious project rather than a crisis-laden tragedy. Inessa Medzhibovskaya explains the evolution of Tolstoy's religious outlook based on his ongoing dialogue with the tradition of conversion in Europe and Russia, as well as on the demands of his own heart, mind, and spirit. The author contextualizes Tolstoy's conversion, comparing his pattern of religious conversion with that of other notable religious converts-Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, Luther, Pascal, Rousseau-as well with that of Tolstoy's countrymen-Pushkin, Gogol, Chaadaev, Stankevich, Belinsky, Herzen, and Dostoevsky. Stressing the importance of the religious culture of his time for Tolstoy, this study investigates the nineteenth century debates that inspired and repelled Tolstoy as he weighed arguments for or against faith in his dialogues with the culture of his time, covering widely differing fields and disciplines of experimental knowledge. The author considers German Romantic philosophy, the natural sciences, pragmatist religious solutions, theories of social progress and evolution, and the historical school of Christianity. Medzhibovskaya stresses the fact that influential intellectual currents were as important to Tolstoy as believers and nonbelievers were from and beyond his immediate environment. The author argues that, in this sense, Tolstoy's conversion emerges as deeply intertextual, and this surprising discovery should not diminish our trust in Tolstoy's sincerity during his religious evolution, which occurred both spontaneously as well as deliberately. The polyphony of discreet spiritual moments that Tolstoy created by fusing in his narratives of conversion religious and artistic realms is arguably his greatest contribution to spiritual autobiography.

Book Arctic Research of the United States

Download or read book Arctic Research of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavic Sins of the Flesh

Download or read book Slavic Sins of the Flesh written by Ronald D. LeBlanc and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking "gastrocritical" approach to the poetics of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and their contemporaries

Book Transnational Tolstoy

Download or read book Transnational Tolstoy written by John Burt Foster, Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "World Literature," a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz. Foster provides an interlocking series of cross-cultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France, and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960 onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy's writings with the most consistent international resonance: War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the world's most compelling novels. Transnational Tolstoy also discusses a shorter work, Hadji Murad. It shares the earlier novels' historical sweep, social breadth, and subtle interplay among a large cast of characters. Along with bringing Tolstoy's gifts to bear on a Muslim protagonist, it also represents his most sustained attempt at world literature.

Book Framing Anna Karenina

Download or read book Framing Anna Karenina written by Amy Mandelker and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandelker's revisionist analysis begins with the contention that Anna Karenina rejects the textual conventions of realism and the stereo-typical representation of women, especially in Victorian English fiction. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy uses the theme of art and visual representation to articulate an aesthetics freed from gender bias and class discrimination.

Book A Karenina Companion

Download or read book A Karenina Companion written by C.J.G. Turner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this great novel. Chapter 1 is a biographical introduction and Chapter 2 an examination of the way in which the novel was composed. In Chapter 3 the author brings together Tolstoi’s own substantial comments on his work. Chapter 4 adduces the main differences between the latest edition of the text and what has been the standard edition for over 50 years. Chapter 5 outlines what Tolstoi was reading as he was writing the novel. The final chapter provides a survey of significant secondary literature, with English-language works listed in appendices. A Karenina Companion will facilitate both the reading and understanding of the novel by English speakers and the writing of informed and reliable critical appreciations.