Close encounters
essays on Russian literature
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Author
Contributions
- Bethea, David M., 1948- publishing director - Contributor
Publication
2013 - Academic Studies Press, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
93,250 words, Guess
Page Count
373 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecloseencounterse0000jack
- ISBN-101936235560
- ISBN-139781936235568
- ISBN-139781618118110
- ISBN-101618118110
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012286338
- OCLC Control Number839480120
- Better World Books9781936235568
- Better World Books9781618118110
- Open LibraryOL26974695M
Classifications
- DDC891.709
- LCCPG2933 .J33 2013
Description
"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.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Ars Rossica
- Ars Rossika
Other Editions
- Close encounters: essays on Russian literature
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