In Quest of Tolstoy

Hugh McLean (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-936235-08-7 (ISBN)

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Investigates some of the many puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Lev Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels, and Tolstoy the thinker, who, from his impregnable outpost at Yasnaya Polyana, questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilised world.

Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society—political, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, has been studying and writing about Tolstoy for many years. In these essays he investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels, and Tolstoy the thinker, who, from his impregnable outpost at Yasnaya Polyana, questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilised world. In two concluding essays, "Tolstoy beyond Tolstoy," McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin.

Hugh McLean taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley, now Professor Emeritus.

Preface; Tolstoy the Artist. "Buried as a Writer & as Man" -- The Puzzle of Family Happiness; The Case of the Missing Mothers, or When Does a Beginning Begin?; Truth in Dying. Which English Anna? Love in Resurrection: Eros or Agape? Could the Master Err? A Note on "God Sees the Truth but Waits"; Was the Master Well Served? Further Comment on "God Sees the Truth But Waits"; A Woman's Place ... The Young Tolstoy & the "Woman Question"; Tolstoy & Jesus; Rousseau's God & Tolstoy's God; Claws on the Behind: Tolstoy & Darwin; A Clash of Utopias: Tolstoy & Gorky; Hemingway & Tolstoy; A Pugilistic Encounter; Foxes into Hedgehogs; Berlin & Tolstoy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-936235-08-0 / 1936235080
ISBN-13	978-1-936235-08-7 / 9781936235087
Zustand	Neuware