The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction

This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Paradise, Purgatory, and Post-Mortems: The Lapsarian Myth as Universal Rite of Passage; Chapter 2 Language and the Soul’s Dark Night in Childhood; Chapter 3 Tolstayan Love as Surface Text; Chapter 4 The Eternal Feminine’s Liebestod Transposed to Baser Clef; Chapter 5 Monsters Monomaniacal, Marital, and Medical: Tolstaya’s Regenerative Use of Gender Stereotypes; Chapter 6 Perspective in Tolstaya’s Wonderland of Art; Chapter 7 Fantasy and Fatality: Narrative as Creative and Killing Strategy; Chapter 8 Tolstayan Times: Traversals and Transfers; Chapter 9 Tolstayan Tropes: Perils, Pleasures, and Epiphanies; Postscript;

About the author

Helena Goscilo

Product details

• Authors: Helena Goscilo
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.1996
• EAN: 9781563248580
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-858-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form