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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
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.