Consequences of Consciousness
Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
Orwin, Donna Tussing
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BOOK SUMMARY
Russian psychological prose has made a distinct contribution to world culturenot only to literature, but also to practical psychology and even to neuropsychology. The Consequences of Consc
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Russian psychological prose has made a distinct contribution to world culture—not only to literature, but also to practical psychology and even to neuropsychology. Consequences of Consciousness focuses primarily on Russian ideas of the self and subjectivity, and how these ideas find expression in the fiction of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy—the most important founding authors of the Russian school of psychological realism. These writers explore both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness, and their books are as relevant today as they have ever been. Through close analysis of many well-known texts, Orwin reveals that these three authors conversed with each other through their works. She emphasizes the role Western thought played in the development of their psychological prose and how it was transformed by a Russian context.
AUTHOR BIO
Donna Tussing Orwin is Professor of Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the prize-winning study Tolstoys Art and Thought, 1847-1880 (1993), editor (with Robin Feuer Miller) of Kathryn Feuers Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace (1996), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (2002). She was editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal for eight years, and is now President of the Tolstoy Society.
BOOK REVIEWS
The great Russian Realists were also great lay psychologists. In a century bewitched by norms and the pursuit of scientific truths, they set out to defend the absolute reality of each persons subjectivity. Orwins wonderful study helps us to see, once again, how subtle are the narrative techniques that transmit ordinary irreducible life and why the quest to legitimize individualized experience results paradoxically in a Russian novel where each reader (from a vast variety of eras, cultures, languages) feels uniquely at home. Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0804757038
ISBN(13-digit): 9780804757034
Dewey Decimal: 891.73/309
Library of Congress: 2007026789
Book Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 238
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