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Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad
interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading
Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and
philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology,
and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have
informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary
theory and literature, science and society, scientific and
theological components of comparative intellectual history, and
aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of
the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky's oeuvre with
its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical,
religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his
time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of
cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters
explore Dostoevsky's real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic,
philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors,
contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky's forward
looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory,
philosophy, theology and science.
Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad
interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading
Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and
philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology,
and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have
informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary
theory and literature, science and society, scientific and
theological components of comparative intellectual history, and
aesthetic debates of the nineteenth century Russia form the core of
the intellectual framework of this book. Dostoevsky's oeuvre with
its wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical,
religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his
time emerges as a particularly important case for the study of
cross-fertilization among disciplines. The individual chapters
explore Dostoevsky's real or imaginative dialogues with aesthetic,
philosophic, and scientific thought of his predecessors,
contemporaries, and successors, revealing Dostoevsky's forward
looking thought, as it finds its echoes in modern literary theory,
philosophy, theology and science.
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with
his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than
a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his
intellectual and philosophical theories. His disinterest in
developing a “unified idea”—in vogue for Russian
intellectuals of his time—and his aversion to the maximalism
characteristic of contemporary Russian culture and society set him
apart from his fellow writers. As a result, Chekhov’s
contribution to intellectual and philosophical discourse was
obscured both by his contemporaries and by subsequent
scholars. Svetlana Evdokimova tackles this gap in Chekhov
scholarship, examining the profound connections between his
unstated philosophy and his artistic production. Arguing that
Chekhov’s four major plays (The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters,
The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya) constitute a kind of cycle, Staging
Existence offers a major reappraisal of this critical playwright in
Russian intellectual history. Evdokimova’s deep, careful research
into Chekhov’s engagement with contemporary philosophy provides
insight into both Chekhov’s oeuvre and the writer himself.
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of
Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's
letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing
this substantial-though until now neglected-epistolary corpus. The
majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by
the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this
volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for
the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in
Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary
concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history,
translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the
letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose,
poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters
as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical
issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times
lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a
particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to
scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general
audience.
This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin
(1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its
greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time
the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on
the subject of history-writings that have strongly influenced
Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings
of his drama, Boris Godunov, such narrative poems as Poltava, The
Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The
Captain's Daughter and Blackamoor of Peter and the Great; lyrical
poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents
Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but
also as an original historical and political thinker. Evdokimova
considers Pushkin within the context of Romantic historiography and
addresses the tension between Pushkin the historian and Pushkin the
fiction writer. She also discusses Pushkin's ideas on the complex
relations between chance and necessity in historical processes, on
the particular significance of great individuals in Russian
history, and on the historical truth.
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