Exile : the sense of alienation in modern Russian letters / David Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, David, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles' writings, Russian--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, Russian.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated?David Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. By ""exile"" he means not only a form of pu

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prefatory Remarks; Part One: The Word in Collision; 1 The Loss of the Word in the Superfluous Man; Monological Discourse; Narcissistic Discourse; Discourse Spoken Rather than Speaking; Discourse Void of Summons and Response; 2 The Collision of Discourse: Dostoevsky's Winter Note; The Alien Other; The Other as Brother; The European Exile; Part Two: The Breach between Life and Word; 3 Monological Death and Dialogical Life: The Case of Ivan Il'ich; The Monological Death of Ivan ll'ich; Wrestling with the Angel; Dialogical Life and Living

4 The Theological Aspects of Exile: Tolstoy's ResurrectionThe Attack on the Church; Toward a Lived Theology; The Dynamic of Redemption; Part Three: The Rupture of Religious Discourse; 5 Pavel Florensky's Antitheology; Human and Divine Relation; From Identity to Antinomy; Love as a Manifestation of Wisdom; 6 Shestov's Return from Athens to Jerusalem; Reason over against Faith; Necessity over against Freedom; Knowledge over against Life; Part Four: The Exile Within; 7 From Politics to Metaphysics: Solzhenitsyn's From under the Rubble; The Moral Path to Freedom; Responsibility

Religious Repentance and the Return from Exile8 Fragments of a Broken Silence: Andrei Sinyavsky's A Voice from the Chorus; Calling Home: Exile from the Family; Calling to the Other: Exile from the Face; Calling Forth the Soul: Art Opposed to Exile; Part Five: The Word in Exile; 9 Exile in the Diaspora: The Poetry of Joseph Brodsky; The Sacramental Sign; The Messenger of Silence; The Affirmation of the Elsewhere; 10 Exile in the Promised Land: The Poetry of Mikhail Gendelev; Homelessness in the Homeland; Voices of Silence, Visions of Darkness; The Divorce of Word and Meaning

Concluding RemarksWorks Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813158938

0813158931

9780813170190

0813170192

OCLC:

47010091