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Transnational Tolstoy : between the West and the world / John Burt Foster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, John Burt, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Khadzhi-Murat.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Russian literature--Western influences.
- Russian literature.
- Comparative literature--Russian and European.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--European and Russian.
- Comparative literature--Russian and Oriental.
- Comparative literature--Oriental and Russian.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
- Contents:
- Facing West. Culture shock in Europe: occidentalism in Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Gambler ; "Vengeance is mine?: Stendhal's Italy and Anna Karenina ; Discordant histories / Napoleonic anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education ; Worldliness to world literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust
- Outside the Soviet canon. "Realism of the New School as modern fiction": Anna Karenina in English, 1900 to 1920 ; Realism as imagism: Nabokov "modernizes" Tolstoy ; Border writing from national solidarity to toxic nationalism: Tolstoy and Stendhal as benchmarks for Malraux and Lampedusa ; Felt history in flux: Anna Karenina between realism and magical realism
- Into the world. "Show me the zulu Tolstoy": after 1991, who owns War and Peace? ; Tolstoy and world literature 1897, 1912, 2000: from What Is Art? to Hadji Murad and beyond. Beyond the West, 1890-1955: dialogues with Premchand, Mahfouz, and Gandhi ; Envisioning Islam in Hadji Murad: Holy War and peaceful romance
- Conclusion: between the West and the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441157706
- 1441157700
- 9781441153265
- 1441153268
- OCLC:
- 826458590
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