Tolstoi : art and influence / Joe Andrew and Robert Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Joe, author.

Reid, Robert, 1948- author.

Series:

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 66.

Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Series ; Volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Influence.

Tolstoy, Leo.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Contemporaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven contributions by international scholars which highlight Tolstoi's influence on his contemporaries and posterity through his fiction and thought. A figure of Tolstoi's intellectual stature has naturally inspired an impressive range of responses. These encompass stage versions of his novels War and Peace and Resurrection, communes founded in his name, and translations which have sought to capture the essence of his works for successive generations. Tolstoi is also compared in this volume with his contemporaries in chapters on Dostoevskii, Veselitskaia, Rozanov and Elizabeth Gaskell. The reader of this work will gain new and unique insights into an unparalleled genius of world literature, especially into his immense cultural reach which continues to this day. Contributors : Carol Apollonio, Katherine Jane Briggs, Elena Govor, Nel Grillaert, Susan Layton, Cynthia Marsh, Henrietta Mondry, Richard Peace, Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev, Willem Weststeijn, Kevin Windle"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction. Tolstoi's Continuum of Influences

Chapter 1. Does the Translation Matter?

Chapter 2. Feeling and Contradiction in Tolstoi's What Is Art?

Chapter 3. Tolstoi in the Work of Tolstoi

Chapter 4. Dostoevskii's Zosima and Tolstoi's Father Sergius: Literary Representations of Starchestvo

Chapter 5. Tolstoi and Lidiia Veselitskaia's Mimi at the Spa: The Fin de Siècle Tourist Adulteress

Chapter 6. Legitimate and Illegitimate Children: Rozanov's `Indecent Proposal' to Tolstoi

Chapter 7. Tolstoi's Resurrection on the Russian Stage

Chapter 8. The Dreamer and the Destroyer: Two Unconventional Tolstoians and Their Impact in Australia

Chapter 9. Reconfiguring the Empire through Performance: Petr Fomenko's 2001 Production of Tolstoi's War and Peace

Chapter 10. Bridging Cultures? John McGahern's The Power of Darkness

Chapter 11. Elizabeth Gaskell, Tolstoi and Dostoevskii

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789004533431

9004533435

OCLC:

1396935366