Costlow Worlds Within Worlds

The Novels of Ivan Turgenev
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6070-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1045, 180 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like the simplest painting of daily artifacts, his works have pleased partly because they shape a recognizable world and partly because their form gives to the content its resonant signifying power. Here Jane Costlow accounts for both the historicity and aesthetic elegance of Turgenev's realist novels in close readings of Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, On the Eve, and Fathers and Children, all written between 1855 and 1861. Each essay focuses on a particular aspect of Turgenev's art as it relates to his human and aesthetic concerns. This study challenges traditional views of Turgenev as an objective recorder of his times, suggesting that the engaging qualities of his novels lie less in their historicity than in the lyricism and aesthetic consciousness with which he shaped his narratives. Costlow explores the lyric meditation, pastoral longing, and unspoken emotion that are the hallmarks of Turgenev's prose and that make up his "worlds within worlds," the realms of his novels that elude the historical. Throughout she demonstrates how the aesthetics of constraint and understatement mask the author's awareness of limitation and complexity in human experience. By stressing the enigmatic and challenging qualities of his works, Costlow exposes Turgenev to revealing new readings.

Originally published in 1990.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Costlow, Jane Tussey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix
NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION, pg. xi
INTRODUCTION, pg. 3
Chapter One. RHETORIC AND SINCERITY: TURGENEV AND THE POETICS OF SILENCE, pg. 11
Chapter Two. GOSSIP, SILENCE, STORY: LANGUAGE IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 30
Chapter Three. HISTORY AND IDYLL IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 55
Chapter Four. ON THE EVE AND THE SIRENS OF STASIS, pg. 82
Chapter Five. ODINTSEVA'S BATH AND BAZAROV'S DOGS: THE DISMANTLING OF CULTURE IN FATHERS AND CHILDREN, pg. 105
CONCLUSION, pg. 138
NOTES, pg. 143
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 159
INDEX, pg. 163