Close encounters : essays on Russian literature   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2066258B

  Author(s)

  Jackson, Robert Louis

  City

  Brighton 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781936235568 

  Date of Publication

  2013 

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  377 

  Subject

  Literary Criticism

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Jackson, Robert Louis

  Publisher

  Academic Studies Press  

• Description

  Essays on Russian Literature: Moral-Philosophical Configurations 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 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.