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

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, |d1951-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Colección:Ars Rossika.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : before they were titans / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
  • Part I : Dostoevsky : works of the 1840s
  • Agency, desire, and fate in Poor folk / Lewis Bagby
  • Me and my double : selfhood, consciousness, and empathy in The double / Gary Saul Morson
  • Husbands and lovers : vaudeville conventions in "Another man's wife," "The jealous husband," and The eternal husband / Susanne Fusso
  • Dostoevsky's White nights : memoir of a Petersburg pathology / Dale E. Peterson
  • Dostoevsky's orphan text : Netochka Nezvanova / Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
  • Part II : Tolstoy : works of the 1850s
  • The creative impulse in Childhood : the dangerous beauty of games, lies, betrayal, and art / Robin Feuer Miller
  • Fear and loathing in the Caucasus : Tolstoy's "The raid" and Russian journalism / William Mills Todd III and Justin Weir
  • Tolstoy's Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp
  • On cultivating one's own garden with other people's labor : serfdom in "A landowner's morning" / Anne Lounsbery
  • Tolstoy's lessons : pedagogy as salvation / Ilya Vinitsky
  • An afterword on the wondrous thickness of first things / Caryl Emerson.