Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46562-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

Joe Andrew and Robert Reid assemble thirteen analytical discussions of Tolstoi’s key works, written by leading scholars from around the world. The works studied cover almost the entire length of Tolstoi’s creative career, from some of his earliest stories of the 1850s (The Sevastopol Stories), to those of his last period, including posthumous publications (The Kreutzer Sonata and Father Sergius). Particular attention is paid to his two masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. All the studies are based on the most recent developments in cultural theory. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into this unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into the methods used to create the works that retain immense importance for us today.

Contributors: Joe Andrew, Eric de Haard, Rose France, Helena Goscilo, Jane Gary Harris, Katalin Kroó, Irina Makoveeva, Deborah Martinsen, Robin Feuer Miller, Robin Milner-Gulland, Audun Mørch, Donna Tussing Orwin, Olga Sobolev, Diane Oenning Thompson

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Andrew, Joe

Reid, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Under Western Eyes: Tolstoi in English-Language Criticism
Joe Andrew

The Dancing Ploughman: Tolstoi’s Views on Poetry and His Writings in Verse
Eric de Haard

Tolstoy’s Breasts or the Mammary Offensive
Helena Goscilo

Tolstoi’s Dogmatic Narrator in His Sevastopol Stories
Donna Tussing Orwin

The Chronotope of Realism: Tolstoi’s Sevastopol Stories
Audun J. Mørch

Marriage, Freedom and Self in Tolstoi’s Family Happiness and Chekhov’s Three Years
Rose France

Ages, Stages and the Culture of Ageing in Tolstoi’s War and Peace
Jane Gary Harris

Modelling the Future in War and Peace: Forms and Meanings
Katalin Kroó

Tooth Pain, Shame and Moral Choice in Anna Karenina
Deborah A. Martinsen

The Problem of Tragedy in Anna Karenina
Diane Oenning Thompson

Tolstoi’s ‘About Mushrooms’
Robin Feuer Miller

Anna Karenina Redux
Irina Makoveeva

‘What Is Music? What Does It Do?’ A Collective Analysis of The Kreutzer Sonata
Robin Milner-Gulland and Olga Sobolev

‘I Am Not the Devil, I Am Simply a Sinful Woman’. Narrative and Gender in Father Sergius: A Neo-Formalist Approach
Joe Andrew

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Andrew is Professor Emeritus of Keele University. Educated at Oxford University, at Keele he taught Film and Russian literature. He has published over 25 books, most recently Dostoevskii's Overcoat: Influence, Comparison and Transposition, edited with Robert Reid (Rodopi, 2013).

Robert Reid is an Honorary Fellow of Keele University where he was formerly Reader in Russian. He has published widely on Russian literature. His most recent publication is Dostoevskii's Overcoat: Influence, Comparison and Transposition, edited with Joe Andrew (Rodopi, 2013).