Art in Doubt - Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds

Summary

Tolstoy and Nabokov seem to have sharply conflicting ideas about the purpose of literature. Tatyana Gershkovich undermines this familiar opposition by identifying a shared fear at the root of their seemingly antithetical aesthetics: that one’s experience of the world might be entirely one’s own, private and impossible to share through art.

Product details

• Authors: Tatyana Gershkovich
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780810145535
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-4553-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies