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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Tolstoy"”.
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Tolstoy and Zola: Trains and Missed Connections
"Tolstoy and Zola" juxtaposes the two writers to examine the evolution of the novel during the late nineteenth century. The juxtaposition is justified by the literary critical debates that were taking place in Russian and French journals during the 1870s and 1880s, concerning Tolstoy and Zola. In …
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Tolstoy & Isaiah : an anarchist critique of Isaiah’s revolution. Developing an anarchist hermeneutic within Biblical studies.
… in relation to the political writings of Leo Tolstoy. I outline the parallels in their criticisms of human power structures and discuss their contrasting visions for society. I do this by examining prophetical images ‘Day of Lord’. It is my premise that the ‘Day of the Lord’ is a revolutionary …
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The Love Ethic in Selected Works of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence
… love and its consequences, and the dichotomy in Tolstoy between his view of physical passion and Christian love of a married couple.
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… monumental novels of psychological prose: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) (1913-1927), and Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House (Pushkinskii dom) (1978). This study expands Richard Moran’s observations on the role of …
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Remembering
… of human and, in particular, family drama of Leo Tolstoy and William Trevor; and by positive psychology and the psychotherapeutic theory and technique of cognitive restructuring.
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Color, Line, and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction
This dissertation investigates Tolstoy’s anxiety over the written word and its ability to communicate truth to the reader. I examine how Tolstoy compensates for the shortcomings of language by borrowing techniques from painting, sculpture, and drawing, and how the visual nature of his work shifts …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
… Turgenev, Sergei Aksakov, Ivan Goncharov, and Tolstoy in the 1850s and 1860s had portrayed Russia in positive terms through the lens of an idyllic countryside, three late realist novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons (1872), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlevs (1875-1881), and Lev Tolstoy's …
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A Neo-Tolstoyan Response to Kitsch
Leo Tolstoy’s aesthetic theory in What is Art? defines art as the transmission of emotion through the creation of an object. Awareness of Tolstoy’s history and beliefs extends a more generous understanding to some of his controversial evaluations of famous artworks, but remaining problems with his …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… such as Munro, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Tolstoy, Carver, Faulkner and McCullers, amongst others, in the relationships they portray, in their lyrical interrogation of unusual experience, in their examination of the relationship between emotion and reason, and in their exploration of the …
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Patterns of human awareness and action : an interpretation of Gandhi's world view in comparative perspective
… a comparative dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and Religious Studies I aim to develop a definition of world view that explores the pivotal world view universals of identity, orientation and belonging and how these combine and interact in world view systems. I also explore various …
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
<p>Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Amado have often been accused of making their heroines too beautiful. But these heroines are also accomplished in ways that demonstrate that their personalities are important. The ambiguous character of the novels by these authors has …
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Wittgensteinian descriptivism and concepts of self-renunciation
… of the world. Connections are made to Tolstoy, Emerson, Rilke, Trakl and Von Hofmannsthal. Part IV argues that each case study in Part II runs counter to the Wittgensteinian position in one of three ways: (1) not having some theses which are proposed by the Wittgensteinian position to …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… Chaev, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Aleksey K. Tolstoy. I demonstrate that, from its beginning, modern Russian theatre was not an imitative art form but, rather, an amalgamation of various foreign influences and older Russian folk performances. I discuss articles and dramas that display …
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“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception
… framework of Soviet symphonism. Alexey Tolstoy famously described the symphony in his review as “the formation of a personality,” a musical assimilation of the literary prototype of the <em>Bildungsroman</em>. With its narrative of heroic spirit and its morally educational nature, the …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… repeats more faintly with Dickens, Flaubert, and Tolstoy (Nabokov hoped one day to translate Anna Karenina); but the most fraught iteration is Joyce, Proust, and Nabokov himself. Chapter Four looks at traces of Joyce and Proust in Ada. The two modernists serve as signs by which great readers …
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Transgressive women and bad mothers: Alternatives to traditional maternity in the Russian literary context
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Wallpapering the novel: economics, aesthetics, and the realist home
Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2013-11-20T17:45:30Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Stein_Faith.pdf: 1180863 bytes, checksum: 40754670aa2811f88279d9e174bb8ce0 (MD5) Stein_FaithWilson.pdf: 1180863 bytes, …
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In Context
The present thesis seeks to show the influences to my artwork and describe the body of work found in my thesis exhibition, In Context. The role of family and childhood are discussed and related to the work. The feminist writers bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Hélène Cixous are cited as influential …
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