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Transnational Tolstoy : between the West and the world /

"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 h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foster, John Burt, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Facing West. Culture shock in Europe: occidentalism in Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Gambler ; "Vengeance is mine?: Stendhal's Italy and Anna Karenina ; Discordant histories / Napoleonic anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education ; Worldliness to world literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust
  • Outside the Soviet canon. "Realism of the New School as modern fiction": Anna Karenina in English, 1900 to 1920 ; Realism as imagism: Nabokov "modernizes" Tolstoy ; Border writing from national solidarity to toxic nationalism: Tolstoy and Stendhal as benchmarks for Malraux and Lampedusa ; Felt history in flux: Anna Karenina between realism and magical realism
  • Into the world. "Show me the zulu Tolstoy": after 1991, who owns War and Peace? ; Tolstoy and world literature 1897, 1912, 2000: from What Is Art? to Hadji Murad and beyond. Beyond the West, 1890-1955: dialogues with Premchand, Mahfouz, and Gandhi ; Envisioning Islam in Hadji Murad: Holy War and peaceful romance
  • Conclusion: between the West and the world.