Transnational Tolstoy

Between the West and the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Transnational 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-15
Mått138 x 214 x 20 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441157706
UtmärkelserWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015 (United States)

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John Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Introduction: Transnational Tolstoy and the New ComparatismPart One: Facing West1. "Occidentalism" in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Culture Shock on European Visits2. Vengeance is Mine: Anna Karenina and Stendhal's Italy3. Napoleonic Anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education4. From Worldliness to World Literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and ProustPart Two: Outside the Soviet Canon5. Realism as Imagism: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Modernist Fiction6. Toxic Nationalism: From Tolstoy and Stendhal to Malraux and Lampedusa7. Felt History: From Anna Karenina to Magical RealismPart Three: Into the World8. What is Art?, Hadji Murad, and World Literature9. Dialogues with Tolstoy: Premchand and Mahfouz10. "Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy": Who Owns War and Peace?11. Postcoloniality and Islamic Identity in Hadji MuradConclusion: Between the West and the WorldBibliographyIndex

Transnational Tolstoy is a welcome and groundbreaking addition to Tolstoy studies, and to the transnational reading of Russian literature generally … In this rewarding volume, John Burt Foster has updated and extended the exhausted genres of ‘Tolstoy and the West’ and ‘Tolstoy and World Literature.’ … Transnational Tolstoy provokes consideration … and plays an exemplary role in opening Tolstoy’s complex position ‘between the west and the world’ to new and productive approaches.