"Who, What Am I?" : Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self /

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"An account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience. This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Paperno, Irina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tolstoj, Lev Nikolaevič > 1828-1910
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Selbst > Motiv
Identitätsfindung > Motiv
Autobiografische Literatur
Self in literature.
Russian prose literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Autobiography > Authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Prose russe > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Russian prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early Diaries
  • Interlude: Between Personal Documents and Fiction
  • Chapter 2. "To Tell One's Faith Is Impossible. ... How to Tell That Which I Live By. I'll Tell You, All the Same. . . ." Tolstoy in His Correspondence
  • Chapter 3. Tolstoy's Confession : What Am I?
  • Chapter 4. "To Write My Life ": Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or Autobiography
  • Chapter 5. "What Should We Do Then?": Tolstoy on Self and Other
  • Chapter 6. "I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality": Tolstoy's Late Diaries
  • Appendix: Russian Quotations
  • Notes
  • Index.

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