Before They Were Titans :
Before They Were Titans : Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy /
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017] ©2015
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Ars Rossica .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Before They Were Titans / Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840s -- I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk / II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double / III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in "Another Man's Wife," "The Jealous Husband," and The Eternal Husband / IV. Dostoevsky's White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology / V. Dostoevsky's Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova / Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850s -- VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art / VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy's "The Raid" and Russian Journalism / VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe / IX. On Cultivating One's Own Garden with Other People's Labor: Serfdom in "A Landowner's Morning" / X. Tolstoy's Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation / An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things / Index Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh -- Bagby, Lewis -- Morson, Gary Saul -- Fusso, Susanne -- Peterson, Dale E. -- Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh -- Miller, Robin Feuer -- Todd, William Mills / Weir, Justin -- Knapp, Liza -- Lounsbery, Anne -- Vinitsky, Ilya -- Emerson, Caryl --
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Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author-for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
In English.
9781618116833
10.1515/9781618116833 doi
Russian literature--Criticism and interpretation.--19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Before They Were Titans / Part I. Dostoevsky: Works of the 1840s -- I. Agency, Desire, and Fate in Poor Folk / II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double / III. Husbands and Lovers: Vaudeville Conventions in "Another Man's Wife," "The Jealous Husband," and The Eternal Husband / IV. Dostoevsky's White Nights: Memoir of a Petersburg Pathology / V. Dostoevsky's Orphan Text: Netochka Nezvanova / Part II. Tolstoy: Works of the 1850s -- VI. The Creative Impulse in Childhood: The Dangerous Beauty of Games, Lies, Betrayal, and Art / VII. Fear and Loathing in the Caucasus: Tolstoy's "The Raid" and Russian Journalism / VIII. Tolstoy's Sevastopol Tales: Pathos, Sermon, Protest, and Stowe / IX. On Cultivating One's Own Garden with Other People's Labor: Serfdom in "A Landowner's Morning" / X. Tolstoy's Lessons: Pedagogy as Salvation / An Afterword on the Wondrous Thickness of First Things / Index Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh -- Bagby, Lewis -- Morson, Gary Saul -- Fusso, Susanne -- Peterson, Dale E. -- Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh -- Miller, Robin Feuer -- Todd, William Mills / Weir, Justin -- Knapp, Liza -- Lounsbery, Anne -- Vinitsky, Ilya -- Emerson, Caryl --
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author-for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license:
In English.
9781618116833
10.1515/9781618116833 doi
Russian literature--Criticism and interpretation.--19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.