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Content: The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss - as a question of sense perception and the body

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Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: 1818-1883 Marx, Karl ; Ästhetik ; Kunst ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Hartle, Johan Frederik, 1976-

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Format: 1 online resource (xli, 311 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-107-13124-3 , 1-280-43354-X , 0-511-80373-7 , 1-139-14734-X , 0-511-17846-8 , 0-511-06376-8 , 0-511-05743-1 , 0-511-33056-1 , 0-511-07222-8

Series Statement: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy

Content: This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein traces the development of aesthetics from its still rationalist and mimetic construction in Lessing, through the optimistic construal of art and/or beauty as the appearance of human freedom in the work of Schiller, to Hölderlin's darker vision of art as the memory of a lost unity, and the variations of that theme - of an impossible striving after the lost ideal - which are found in the work of Schlegel and Novalis.

Note: Includes selections by Hamann, Lessing, Moritz, Schiller, Holderlin, Novalis, and Schlegel, translated into English. , Aesthetica in nuce : a rhapsody in Cabbalistic prose (1762) / J.G. Hamann -- Laocoön : an essay on the limits of painting and poetry (1766) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- From 'On the artistic imitation of the beautiful' (1788) / Karl Phillip Moritz -- 'Kallias or Concerning beauty : letters to Gottfried Körner' (1793) / Friedrich Schiller -- 'Oldest programme for a system of German idealism' (1796) ; 'Letter to Hegel, 26 January 1795' ; 'Being judgement possibility' (1795) ; 'The significance of tragedy' (1802) ; 'Remarks on Oedipus' (1803) ; Friedrich Hölderlin -- From Miscellaneous remarks (1797) ; 'Monologue' ; 'Dialogues' (1798) ; 'On Goethe' (1798) ; 'Studies in the visual arts' (1799) ; Novalis -- From 'Critical fragments' (1797) ; From 'Athenaeum fragments' (1798) ; From 'Ideas' (1800) ; 'On Goethe's Meister' (1798) ; 'Letter about the novel' (1799) ; 'On incomprehensibility' (1800) ; Friedrich Schlegel. , English

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Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-80639-9

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Subjects: Philosophy

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803734

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-78204-412-4

Series Statement: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Content: Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. The many catastrophes of German history have often been described as tragic. Consequently, German literature, music, philosophy, painting, and even architecture are rich in tragic connotations. Yet exactly what "tragedy" and "thetragic" may mean requires clarification. The poet creates a certain artful shape and trajectory for raw experience by "putting it into words"; but does putting such experience into words (or paintings or music or any other form) betray suffering by turning it into mere art? Or is it art that first turns mere suffering into tragic experience by revealing and clarifying its deepest dimension? What are we talking about, exactly, when we talk about tragic experience and tragic art, especially in an age in which, according to Hannah Arendt, evil has become banal? Does banality muffle or even annul the tragic? Does tragedy take suffering and transform it into beauty, as Schiller thought?Is it in the interest of truth for suffering to be "beautiful"? Is it possible that poetry, music, and art are important because they in fact create the meaning of suffering? Or is suffering only suffering and not accessible to meaning, tragic or otherwise? This book comprises essays that seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history. Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Stephen D. Dowden, Wolfram Ette, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Barbara Hahn, Karsten Harries, Felicitas Hoppe, Joseph P. Lawrence, James McFarland, Karen Painter, Bruno Pieger, Robert Pirro, Thomas P. Quinn, Mark W. Roche, Helmut Walser Smith. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German language and literature at Brandeis University. Thomas P. Quinn is an independent scholar.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2023). , Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Pursuit of Unhappiness; 1: The Confinement of Tragedy: Between Urfaust and Woyzeck; 2: Goethe's Faust as the Tragedy of Modernity; 3: Before or Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and the Tragedy of Entsagung; 4: Hölderlin und das Tragische; 5: Nietzsche, Büchner, and the Blues; 6: Freud und die Tragödie; 7: The Death of Tragedy: Walter Benjamin's Interruption of Nietzsche's Theory of Tragedy; 8: Rosenzweig's Tragedy and the Spectacles of Strauss: The Question of German-Jewish History , 9: Requiem for the Reich: Tragic Programming after the Fall of Stalingrad10: The Strange Absence of Tragedy in Heidegger's Thought; 11: The Tragic Dimension in PostwarGerman Painting; 12: Vestiges of the Tragic; 13: Atrocity and Agency: W. G. Sebald's Traumatic Memory in the Light of Hannah Arendt's Politics of Tragedy; 14: "Stark and Sometimes Sublime": Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Tragedy; 15: The German Tragic: Pied Pipers, Heroes, and Saints; Afterword: Searching for a Standpoint of Redemption; Note on the Contributors; Index , English

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Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781782044123

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Format: 1 online resource (380 pages)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 1-61811-677-0 , 1-61811-123-X

Series Statement: Ars Rossica.

Content: 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , Introductory Note / , A Glance at the Essays -- , Fate, Freedom, and Responsibility -- , Moral-Philosophical Subtext in Pushkin's The Stone Guest -- , Turgenev's "Knock... Knock... Knock!..": The Riddle of the Story -- , Polina and Lady Luck in Dostoevsky's The Gambler -- , Pierre and Dolokhov at the Barrier: The Lesson of the Duel -- , Chance and Design: Anna Karenina's First Meeting with Vronsky -- , Breaking the Moral Barrier: Anna Karenina's Night Train to St. Petersburg -- , Uzhas in the Subtext: Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych -- , "What Time Is It? Where Are We Going?" Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard: The Story of a Verb -- , Two Kinds of Beauty -- , The Sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- , The Defiled and Defiling "Physiognomy" of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- , Dostoevsky's "Anecdote from a Child's Life": A Case of Bifurcation -- , The Triple Vision: Dostoevsky's "The Peasant Marey" -- , The Making of a Russian Icon: Solzhenitsyn's "Matryona's Home" -- , Critical Perspectives -- , Dostoevsky's Concept of Reality and Its Representation in Art -- , In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's Polemic with Dostoevsky -- , Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and "Dostoevsky's Christian Declaration of Faith" -- , Vyacheslav I. Ivanov's Poem "Nudus Salta!" and the Purpose of Art -- , Poetry of Parting -- , Intimations of Mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev's "In Parting there is a Lofty Meaning" -- , The Poetry of Memory and the Memory of Poetry: Igor Severyanin's "No More Than a Dream" -- , Supremum Vale: The Last Stanzas of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists -- , From the Other Shore: Nabokov's Translation into Russian of Goethe's "Dedication" to Faust -- , Index , English

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DOI: 10.1515/9781618116772

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Format: lviii, 283 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781350024229 , 9781350074712

Content: The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss - as a question of sense perception and the body

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-3500-2424-3

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Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: Marx, Karl 1818-1883 ; Ästhetik ; Kunst ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Author information: Hartle, Johan Frederik 1976-

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 283 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-3500-2424-3 , 978-1-3500-2421-2 , 978-1-3500-2423-6

Content: The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss - as a question of sense perception and the body

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hardback ISBN 978-1-3500-2422-9

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Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: 1818-1883 Marx, Karl ; Ästhetik ; Kunst ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.5040/9781350024243

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Author information: Hartle, Johan Frederik, 1976-

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Format: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition: 1st, New ed.

ISBN: 9783035303469

Series Statement: German Life and Civilization 58

Content: This book offers a study of West-East cross-cultural and cross-contextual literacy by investigating Goethe’s relationship to the poetics of fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in the West-östlicher Divan. Goethe’s collection of poetry, this book argues, constitutes a turning point in the history of German poetic subjectivity. The intellectual and historical significance of the Divan is examined by considering Goethe’s conception of history both in relation to Hegel’s philosophy of history as well as the linear notion of progress throughout the nineteenth century. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how the rise of aesthetics and the transition from a theological to a secular-humanistic conception of history and humanity in Europe positively influenced the reception of non-European literatures at the end of the eighteenth century. Hafiz, as argued here, owes his textual presence in the Divan to a cross-cultural and cross-temporal poetic vision that has its roots in the European Enlightenment. The book also elaborates on the role translation plays in the development of poetry and poetics as exemplified in the works of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) and Josef Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), translators of Oriental poetry into English and German.

Note: Contents: The Disposition: Goethe in Weimar – The Object of Poetic Desire: Court Poetry and the Ghazal – The Present behind the Past: Hafiz in Shiraz – The Convergence: European Enlightenment and Persian Poetry – The Precondition: Hammer-Purgstall in Vienna – The Poetic Event and its Temporality: Goethe’s Divan and Philosophy of History.

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DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0346-9

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Format: 1 online resource (vi, 315 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-57113-878-1

Series Statement: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Content: Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that "Goethe's ghosts" - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane Brown, whose life's work has called attention to the allegorical modes haunting the mimetic forms that dominate modern literature, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history of the book, semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood studies, and eco-criticism. The persistence, omnipresence, and modalities of the "ghosts" they find suggest that more than influence or standards is at issue here. Goethe's work informs current debates on nineteenth-century nationalism, while his Faust increasingly serves to express contemporary culture's anxiety about new technologies. The stubborn reappearance of these revenants testifies to more fundamental issues concerning the status of literature and the task of the reader. As the contributors demonstrate, these questions acquire renewed urgency in writers as diverse as Hegel, Adorno, Benn, Droste-Hülshoff, and Nietzsche. Each of the essays testifies to the enduring salience and presence of Goethe. Contributors: Helmut Ammerlahn, Benjamin Bennett, Richard Block, Dieter Borchmeyer, Franz-Josef Deiters, Richard T. Gray, Martha B. Helfer, Meredith Lee, Clark Muenzer, Andrew Piper, Simon Richter, Jürgen Schroeder, Peter Schwartz, Patricia Simpson, Robert Tobin, David Wellbery, Sabine Wilke. Simon Richter is Professor of German Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Block is Associate Professor of German at the University of Washington.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , Introduction: ghosts and the machine: reading with Jane Brown / Richard Block and Simon Richter -- Egologies: Goethe, entoptics, and the instruments of writing life / Andrew Piper -- Goethe's haunted architectural idea / Clark Muenzer -- "Über allen Gipfeln": the poem as hieroglyph / Benjamin Bennett -- Goethe's Hauskapelle and sacred choral music / Meredith Lee -- From haunting visions to revealing (self- )reflections: the Goethean hero between subject and object / Hellmut Ammerlahn -- Mephisto: or the spirit of laughter / Dieter Borchmeyer -- Shipwreck with spectators: ideologies of observation in Goethe's Faust II / Richard T. Gray -- Constructing the nation: Volk, Kulturnation, and eros in Faust / Robert Deam Tobin -- Gretchen's ghosts: Goethe, Adorno, and the literature of refuge / Patricia Anne Simpson -- "I'll burn my books": Faust(s), magic, media / Peter J. Schwartz -- The imagination of freedom: Goethe and Hegel as contemporaries / David E. Wellberry -- Effacement vs. exposure of the poetic act: philosophy and literature as producers of history (Hegel vs. Goethe) / Franz-Josef Deiters -- Toward an environmental aesthetics: depicting nature in the age of Goethe / Sabine Wilke -- "Ein heimlich Ding": the self as object in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff / Martha B. Helfer -- "Ja, Goethe über alles und immer": Benn's double life in his letters to F.W. Oelze (1932-1956) / Jürgen Schröder -- Bibliography of Jane K. Brown's publications. , English

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DOI: 10.1515/9781571138781

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Format: 1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-9035-6

Content: "Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) was a German philosopher who offered in his writings a radical critique of the Enlightenment's reverence for reason. A pivotal figure in the Sturm und Drang movement, his thought influenced such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder. As a friend of Immanuel Kant, Hamann was the first writer to comment on the Critique of Pure Reason, and his work foreshadows the linguistic turn in philosophy as well as numerous elements of twentieth century hermeneutics and existentialism.

Content: Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project addresses Hamann's oeuvre from the perspective of political philosophy, focusing on his views concerning the public use of reason, social contract theory, autonomy, aesthetic morality and the politics of 'taste, ' and the technocratic ideal of enlightened despotism. Robert Alan Sparling situates Hamann's work historically, elucidates his somewhat difficult writing, and argues for his relevance in the ongoing culture wars over the merits of the Enlightenment project"--Publisher description.

Note: PART V : Aesthetics: Hamann's Anti-Artistic Aestheticism -- Aesthetic, All Too Aesthetic: Hamann on the Battle between Poetry and Philosophy -- Being and Becoming: Hamann's Ambiguous Relationship to Platonism ; Passions, Sexuality, and the Body Creativity and Genius ; Poetic Reception: Hamann on Enlightenment Taste ; 'Only a God Can Save Us' -- Neither Art Nor Philosophy: Assessing Hamann's Foundational Aesthetics. , PART III : Language and the City in Modern Natural Law: Hamann's Controversy with Mendelssohn -- Leviathan and Jerusalem: Rights and 'the Laws of Wisdom and Goodness' -- Leviathan and Jerusalem -- Hamann and Natural Rights -- Divine Law, Property, and Justice -- Conclusion: Rights, Community and Leviathan -- Faith, Inside and Out: Convictions versus Actions, Eternity versus History -- The Externals -- Hamann on History and Eternity, External and Internal -- Liberal Peace and Illiberal Tension: Tolerance versus Tolerance -- Language and Society -- Mendelssohn on the Limits of Language -- Hamann on the Priority of Language -- Appendix: Hamann and Judaism -- PART IV : Practical Reflections of an Impractical Man: Hamann contra Frederick II -- The Language of Enlightenment and the Practice of Despotism: J.G. Hamann's Polemics against Frederick the Great [Hamann] -- Enlightened Despotism -- Frederick and the Politics of Enlightenment: Manufacturing Prussians -- Hamann's Relationship with Royal Power -- Theory and Practice -- What Is to Be Done? , PART I : Enlightenment and Hamann's Reaction -- Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and Political Project -- Enlightenment as a Contested Concept -- Hamann and His Age -- Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public Reason -- Public, Private, and the Unmündige: The Closed and the Open in 'Public Reason' -- Bon Sens and the Impersonal Public in Public Reason -- The Personal and Its Relationship to Poetry, Myth, and 'Metaschematism' -- Poetry, Philosophy, and Public Discourse: Aufklärung oder Verklärung -- PART II : The Politics of Metacritique: Hamann contra Kant Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann -- Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft: Exegesis -- Varieties of Copernican Turn -- Did Hamann Miss His Mark? -- The a Priori and Language -- The Ideas of God and the Person -- The Divine Idea -- The Soul and the Person -- The Soul in Community: Dignity, Autonomy. , Issued also in print. , English

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DOI: 10.3138/9781442690356

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Format: 1 online resource (xxiii, 373 pages).

Series Statement: Ars Rossika

Content: Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first ("Chance and Fate"), issues of freedom and responsibility, the necessity of free individual expression and yet the limits of will, or self-will; second ("Two Kinds of Beauty"), the unity of moral, esthetic, and spiritual categories, and the quest for the ideal; third ("Critical Perspectives"), examples of the type of commentary that approaches art with a unified ethical and spiritual perspective (Dostoevsky, Gorky, V.I. Ivanov, and the partially dissenting Bakhtin); and fourth ("Poems of Parting"), three poems (works by Tyutchev, Severyanin, and Pushkin) involving parting, loss, and recovery.

Note: Includes index. , Introductory note / Horst-Jürgen Gerigk -- A glance at the essays -- Moral-philosophical subtext in Pushkin's The stone guest -- Turgenev's Knock ... knock ... knock! : the riddle of the story -- Polina and lady luck in Dostoevsky's The gambler -- Pierre and Dolokhov at the barrier: the lesson of the duel -- Chance and design: Anna Karenina's first meeting with Vronsky -- Breaking the moral barrier: Anna Karenina's night train to St. Petersburg -- Uzhas in the subtext: Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilych -- What time is it? Where are we going? Chekhov's The cherry orchard: the story of a verb -- Two kinds of beauty -- The sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- The defiled and defiling physiognomy of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's Anecdote from a child's life: a case of bifurcation -- The triple vision: Dostoevsky's The peasant Marey -- The making of a Russian icon: Solzhenitsyn's Matryona's home -- Dostoevsky's concept of reality and its representation in art -- In the interests of social pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's polemic with Dostoevsky -- Bakhtin's Poetics of Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's Christian declaration of faith -- Vyacheslav I. Ivanov's poem Nudus salta! and the purpose of art -- Intimations of mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev's In parting there is a lofty meaning -- The poetry of memory and the memory of poetry: Igor Severyanin's No more than a dream -- Supremum vale: the last stanzas of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists -- From the other shore: Nabokov's translation into Russian of Goethe's Dedication to Faust.

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