Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618118110)

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.

Author: Robert Louis Jackson
ISBN-10: 1618118110
ISBN-13: 9781618118110
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2018
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d