Tolstoy and His Problems : Views from the Twenty-First Century /
Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy's thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences. In the broadest sense--with e...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Series: | Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Tolstoy and his problems : choosing a perspective / Inessa Medzhibovskaya
- Prologue. Tolstoy's nihilism / Jeff Love
- Tolstoy as social theorist / Michael A. Denner
- The transformation of the mystical tradition in Tolstoy's art and religious thought / Vladimir M. Paperni
- Tolstoy's Jewish questions / Inessa Medzhibovskaya
- Laughing with the Count : the humor in War and peace and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks
- Principles of Tolstoy's educational thought / Daniel Moulin-Stozek
- Tolstoy, opera, and the problem of aesthetic seduction / Stephen Halliwell
- Tolstoy against Shakespeare (a theatrical feud featuring George Bernard Shaw) / Caryl Emerson
- Epilogue. What can we, in the twenty-first century, learn from Tolstoy? : ruminations on reading all ninety volumes of the Jubilee edition of Tolstoy's complete works; . . . and a bit about pigeons, cookies and milk, and snails . . . / Ellen Chances.