Frank Between Religion and Rationality

Essays in Russian Literature and Culture
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3653-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part I. C lassics

Chapter One: Poor Folk and House of the Dead 9

Chapter Two: The Idiot 29

Chapter Three: Demons 46

Chapter Four: War and Peace 64

Part II. The Russian Tradition

Chapter Five: Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia 87

Chapter Six: A Life of Pushkin 107

Chapter Seven: Oblomov and Goncharov 118

Chapter Eight: Lydia Ginzburg, On Psychological Prose 129

Chapter Nine: Richard Pipes, Russian Conservatism and Its Critics 143

Part III. The Dostoevskian Orbit

Chapter Ten: Dostoevsky and Anti-Semitism 159

Chapter Eleven: In Search of Dostoevsky 173

Chapter Twelve: Arkady Kovner 185

Chapter Thirteen: J. M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg 196

Chapter Fourteen: Dostoevsky and Evil 204

Part IV. Twentieth-Century Issues

Chapter Fifteen: Anton Chekhov 219

Chapter Sixteen: The Triumph of Abram Tertz 230

Chapter Seventeen: D. S. Mirsky 249

Chapter Eighteen: Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature 261

Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was professor of comparative and Russian literature at Princeton and Stanford. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, two Christian Gauss Awards, and other honors. The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies awarded Frank its highest honor.