Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov
This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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London
Anthem Press
2010
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857289827/type/BOOK
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| Author Notes: | edited by Olga Tabachnikova ; translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure ; translation editor, Adam Ure |
| Summary: | This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov Brief biographies: Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov -- Rozanov on Chekhov: overcoming literature and extending horizons / Vladimir Kataev -- Kind and quiet: Vasilii Rozanov's reading of Chekhov / Aleksandr Medvedev -- Contemporaneity, competition and combat. facts and fiction about everybody and passiveness, Orientalism and anaesthesia in Rozanov's view on Chekhov / Rainer Grübel -- "Tree of life" and "dead waters": why was Rozanov afraid of Chekhov? / Michal Oklot -- Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness / Aleksandr Chudakov -- Negating his own negation: Merezhkovskii's understanding of Chekhov's role in russian culture / Anna Lisa Crone -- An illuminating misinterpretation: on Merezhkovskii's literary criticism of Chekhov / Karoline Thaidigsmann -- Can Merezhkovskii see the spirit in the prose of flesh? / Vladimir Golstein -- Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov -- Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova -- Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich -- Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780857289827 |