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Informationen zum Autor Ilya Vinitsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together. Zusammenfassung Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrefaceAbbreviations Introduction: A New World - Modern Spiritualism in Russia, 1853-1870s PART ONE TABLE TALKS: SEANCE AS CULTURAL METAPHOR1 Seance as Test, or, Russian Writers at a Spiritualist Rendezvous2 Russian Glubbdubdrib: The Shade of False Dimitry and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism3 Dead Poets’ Society: Pushkin’s Shade in Russian Cultural Mythology of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century PART TWO REALIST EXORCISM: SPIRITUALISM AND THE RUSSIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION OF THE 1860s TO 1880s4 Flickering Hands: The Spiritualist Realism of Nikolai Vagner5 The Middle World: The Realist Spiritualism of Saltykov-Shchedrin6 The Underworld: Dostoevsky’s Ontological Realism7 The (Dis)infection: Art and Hypnotism in Leo Tolstoy Epilogue: The Spirit of Literature - Reflections on Leskov’s Artistic Spiritualism NotesWorks CitedIndex
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Ilya Vinitsky is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.
