Research Catalog

Title

Close encounters : essays on Russian literature / Robert Louis Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Robert Louis.

Publication

Boston : Academic Studies Press, c2013.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Bethea, David M., 1948-

Description

xxiii, 373 p.; 24 cm

Summary

"Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first ("Chance and Fate"), issues of freedom and responsibility, the necessity of free individual expression and yet the limits of will, or self-will; second ("Two Kinds of Beauty"), the unity of moral, esthetic, and spiritual categories, and the quest for the ideal; third ("Critical Perspectives"), examples of the type of commentary that approaches art with a unified ethical and spiritual perspective (Dostoevsky, Gorky, V.I. Ivanov, and the partially dissenting Bakhtin); and fourth ("Poems of Parting"), three poems (works by Tyutchev, Severyanin, and Pushkin) involving parting, loss, and recovery." -- Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Ars Rossica

Uniform Title

Ars Rossika.

Subjects

• Russisch
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Comparative literature > Themes, motives
• Russian literature > History and criticism
• Literatur

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Contents

Introductory note / Horst-Jürgen Gerigk -- A glance at the essays -- Moral-philosophical subtext in Pushkin's The stone guest -- Turgenev's Knock...knock...knock! : the riddle of the story -- Polina and lady luck in Dostoevsky's The gambler -- Pierre and Dolokhov at the barrier: the lesson of the duel -- Chance and design: Anna Karenina's first meeting with Vronsky -- Breaking the moral barrier: Anna Karenina's night train to St. Petersburg -- Uzhas in the subtext: Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilych -- What time is it? Where are we going? Chekhov's The cherry orchard: the story of a verb -- Two kinds of beauty -- The sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- The defiled and defiling physiognomy of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's Anecdote from a child's life: a case of bifurcation -- The triple vision: Dostoevsky's The peasant Marey -- The making of a Russian icon: Solzhenitsyn's Matryona's home -- Dostoevsky's concept of reality and its representation in art -- In the interests of social pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's polemic with Dostoevsky -- Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's Christian declaration of faith -- Vyacheslav I. Ivanov's poem Nudus salta! and the purpose of art -- Intimations of mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev's In parting there is a lofty meaning -- The poetry of memory and the memory of poetry: Igor Severyanin's No more than a dream -- Supremum vale: the last stanzas of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists -- From the other shore: Nabokov's translation into Russian of Goethe's Dedication to Faust.

Call Number

JFE 15-6572

ISBN

• 9781936235568
• 1936235560

LCCN

2012286338

OCLC

839480120

Author

Jackson, Robert Louis.

Title

Close encounters : essays on Russian literature / Robert Louis Jackson.

Imprint

Boston : Academic Studies Press, c2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ars Rossica

Ars Rossika.

Bibliography

Includes index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Bethea, David M., 1948- Publishing director

Research Call Number

JFE 15-6572