Consequences of consciousness : Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy / Donna Tussing Orwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Russian fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

Consciousness in literature.

Psychological fiction, Russian--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, Russian.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883--Criticism and interpretation.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Tolstoy, Leo.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

"Consequences of Consciousness" shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.

Contents:

The origins of self-consciousness as a national trait of the Russian literary tradition

Turgenev : subjectivity in the shadows

Dostoevsky's hidden author

Taming the author : the platonic and the Turgenevian moments in Tolstoy's fiction

Romantic longing in Turgenev

Dostoevsky's critique of Turgenev

Reflection as a tool for understanding in Russian psychological prose

Childhood in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy

The psychology of evil in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-227) and index.

ISBN:

9780804757034

0804757038

OCLC:

147988420