| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) |
| Contents |
Facing West. Culture shock in Europe: occidentalism in Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Gambler ; "Vengeance is mine?: Stendhal's Italy and Anna Karenina ; Discordant histories / Napoleonic anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education ; Worldliness to world literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust -- Outside the Soviet canon. "Realism of the New School as modern fiction": Anna Karenina in English, 1900 to 1920 ; Realism as imagism: Nabokov "modernizes" Tolstoy ; Border writing from national solidarity to toxic nationalism: Tolstoy and Stendhal as benchmarks for Malraux and Lampedusa ; Felt history in flux: Anna Karenina between realism and magical realism -- Into the world. "Show me the zulu Tolstoy": after 1991, who owns War and Peace? ; Tolstoy and world literature 1897, 1912, 2000: from What Is Art? to Hadji Murad and beyond. Beyond the West, 1890-1955: dialogues with Premchand, Mahfouz, and Gandhi ; Envisioning Islam in Hadji Murad: Holy War and peaceful romance -- Conclusion: between the West and the world |
| Summary |
"Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "World Literature," a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz. Foster provides an interlocking series of cross-cultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France, and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960 onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy's writings with the most consistent international resonance: War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the world's most compelling novels. Transnational Tolstoy also discusses a shorter work, Hadji Murad. It shares the earlier novels' historical sweep, social breadth, and subtle interplay among a large cast of characters. Along with bringing Tolstoy's gifts to bear on a Muslim protagonist, it also represents his most sustained attempt at world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Khadzhi-Murat.
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| SUBJECT |
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 fast |
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Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast |
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Khadzhi-Murat (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast |
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Voĭna i mir (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- Western influences
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Comparative literature -- Russian and European
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Comparative literature -- European and Russian
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Comparative literature -- Russian and Oriental
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Comparative literature -- Oriental and Russian
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
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Comparative literature -- European and Russian
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Comparative literature -- Russian and European
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441149374 |
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1441149376 |
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9781472544131 |
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1472544137 |
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1441153268 |
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9781441153265 |
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1441157700 |
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9781441157706 |
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9781441135681 |
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1441135685 |
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