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Essays on Russian Literature
Robert Jackson
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Description for Essays on Russian Literature
Hardcover. Series: Ars Rossika. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
377
Condition
New
Series
Ars Rossika
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235568
SKU
V9781936235568
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About Robert Jackson
Robert Louis Jackson (PhD University of California) is B.E. Bensinger Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, and taught at Yale from 1954 to 2000. He is the author of Dostoevsky's Underground Man in Russian Literature (1958); Dostoevsky's Quest for Form: A Study of his Philosophy of Art (1966); The Art of Dostoevsky: Deliriums and ... Read more
Reviews for Essays on Russian Literature
“This collection of essays is neither a history of Russian literature in disguise nor is it a collection of separate interpretations of great Russian books. Close Encounters is an answer, a new answer to the old question of what to look for in Russian literature. . . For sheer power of convincing argument and didactic knowhow, Close Encounters, I think, ... Read more