Anniversary essays on Tolstoy / edited by Donna Tussing Orwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Tolstoy, Leo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in these essays speak to readers with astonishing force, relevance, and complexity. In a lively, challenging style, leading scholars range over his long life, from his first work Childhood to the works of his old age like Hadji Murat, and the many genres in which he worked, from the major novels to aphorisms and short stories. The essays present fresh approaches to his central themes: love, death, religious faith and doubt, violence, the animal kingdom, and war. They also assess his reception both in his lifetime and subsequently. Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of more current scholarship on Tolstoy.

Contents:

Tolstoy and music / Caryl Emerson

Sublime vision and self-derision : the aesthetics of death in Tolstoy / Andreas Schönle

Tolstoy's peaceable kingdom / Robin Feuer Miller

Leo Tolstoy : pacifist, patriot, and molodets / Donna Tussing Orwin

Leo Tolstoy's correspondence with Nikolai Strakhov : the dialogue on faith / Irena Paperno

The worm of doubt : Prince Andrei's death and Russian spiritual awakening of the 1860s / Ilya Vinitsky

Tolstoy's spirituality / G.M. Hamburg

Tracking the English novel in Anna Karenina : who wrote the English novel that Anna reads? / Edwina Cruise

Violence and the role of drama in the late Tolstoy : The realm of darkness / Justin Weir

What men quote by : Tolstoy, wise sayings, and moral tales / Gary Saul Morson

The "proletarian lord" : Leo Tolstoy's image during the Russian revolutionary period / Michael A. Denner.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-73946-X

1-107-20629-4

1-282-53608-7

9786612536083

0-511-67838-X

0-511-67712-X

0-511-68161-5

0-511-68359-6

0-511-67624-7

0-511-67963-7

OCLC:

609860896