Critical Insights: Leo Tolstoy

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2017

ISBN13

9781682176122

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This volume will consider various and lesser known works by Tolstoy in addition to Anna Karenina and War and Peace with attention to the fundamentals of Tolstoy's biography, personal philosophy, and his sustained legacy in the Russian literary canon.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About this Volume.
On Tolstoy.
Biography of the Author.
Critical Contexts.
1: “Not a Work of Art but a Piece of Life”: History and Realism in the Time of Tolstoy.
2: Topics and Trends in Tolstoy Studies.
3: The Great Brain's Brawn: Tolstoy at the Gym.
4: Anna Karenina, Rousseau, and the Gospels.
Critical Readings.
5: Tolstoy in the Caucasus: Noble Savages and Imperialist Identities.
6: Reading beyond Russia: J.M. Coetzee's Interpretations and Adaptations of Tolstoy's Detstvo, Otrochestvo and Yunost.
7: War and Peace: Its Reception in Nineteenth-Century America.
8: Anna Karenina: Its Reception in Nineteenth-Century America.
9: “Similar to Feverish Delirium”: The Fantastic Worlds of Battle as Tolstoy's Criticism of War in War and Peace.
10: Resurrection as Desexualization: The New Ethical Hero in Tolstoy.
11: Estranged and Degraded Worlds: The Grotesque Aesthetics of Tolstoy's Resurrection.
12: From Christ to Krishna: Tolstoy and Eastern Philosophies.
13: The Path of Life: A Guidebook to Tolstoy's Philosophical Source Material and the Mysticism of His Latter Years.
14: Tolstoy's Narrative Technique: Listing People, Objects, and Events.
Resources.
Chronology.
Major Works.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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