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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Robert Louis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]
Colección:Ars Rossica
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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