Art in doubt : Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the problem of other minds /

"Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition-that approaching a text skeptically is easy, but trusting it is hard Two figures central to the Russian literary tradition-Tolstoy, the moralist, and Nabokov, the aesthete-seem...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gershkovich, Tatyana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2023]
Series:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Subjects:
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910.
1800-1999
Russian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics in literature.
Russian fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Some Better Brick than the Cartesian One"
  • Tolstoy's Uncertain Artist
  • Nabokov's Moderate Multiplication of the Self
  • Atrophied Aesthetic Sense
  • Suspicion on Trial
  • Afterword: The Artful and the Artless.

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