Robert Louis Jackson

Close Encounters (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Russian Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art. Through close textual analysis, the author offers a view of the unity of form and content in Russian writing and of its unique capacity to disclose the universal in the detail of human experience. With an emphasis on Dostoevsky, Close Encounters foregrounds ethical and spiritual concerns of Russian writers and stimulates the reader to pursue his or her own critical exploration of Russian literature. This work will be of interest to academic libraries, university students, and specialists in literature, criticism, philosophy, and esthetics, as well as enthusiastic general readers of Russian literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Progr
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618111234
• Artikelnr.: 56998127

Autorenporträt

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 Nocturnes (1981); and Dialogues with Dostoevsky: The Overwhelming Questions (1993).