All the same the words don't go away : essays on authors, heroes, aesthetics, and stage adaptations from the Russian tradition / Caryl Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Caryl.

Contributor:

Bethea, David.

Bethea, David, Contributor.

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.

Boston, MA Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All the Same the Words Don't Go Away brings together twenty-five years of essays and reviews, linked loosely by three themes. The first explores the legacy of Mikhail Bakhtin: his ideas of dialogue and carnival, and the debates ignited by each. The second delves into three "master workers" of the Russian tradition: Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In this section, emphasis is comparative: the riddle of Pushkin's life, why "Tolstoy versus Dostoevsky," how Chekhov reads Tolstoy, why Kundera dislikes Doestoevsky and Tolstoy dislikes Shakespeare. The final section addresses the transposition of classic literary texts into other media through musical works by Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. Throughout, the fundamental heroes are Pushkin's Tatiana Larina and Boris Godunov. This volume will be of interest to comparativists and students in interdisciplinary humanities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Great Art Should Slow Us Down: "Participative Th inking" in the World and as the World of Caryl Emerson / Bethea, David

I N MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (Dialogue, Carnival, the Bakhtin Wars)

1. Polyphony and the Carnivalesque: Introducing the Terms

2. The Early Philosophical Essays

3. Coming to Terms with Carnival

4. Gasparov and Bakhtin

II ON THE MASTER WORKERS

5. Four Pushkin Biographies

6. Pushkin's Tatiana

7. Pushkin's Boris Godunov

8. George Steiner on Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

9. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on Evil-Doing

10. Kundera on Not Liking Dostoevsky

11. Parini on Tolstoy, with a Postscript on Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and the Performing Arts

12. Chekhov and the Annas

III MUSICALIZING THE LITERARY CLASSIC (Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev)

13. Foreword to Richard Taruskin's Essays on Musorgsky

14. From "Boris Godunov" to "Khovanshchina"

15. Tumanov on Maria Olenina-d'Alheim

16. Tchaikovsky's Tatiana

17. Little Operas to Pushkin's Little Tragedies

18. Playbill to Prokofi ev's "War and Peace" at the Met

19. Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"

20. Princeton University's Boris Godunov

21. "Eugene Onegin" on the Stalinist Stage

In Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781618118479

1618118471

9781618111289

1618111280

OCLC:

1135563315