Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov

Informationen zum Autor Olga Tabachnikova holds a PhD in Mathematics and a PhD in Russian Literature and Philosophy. She is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Russian Department of the University of Bristol. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; Three Brief Biographies; I. Vasilii Rozanov; Rozanov on Chekhov: 'Overcoming Literature' and Extending Horizons; Kind and Quiet: Chekhov in the Perceptions of Vasilii Rozanov; Contemporaneity, Competition and Combat: Facts and Fiction about Everybody and Passiveness, Orientalism and Anaesthesia in Rozanov's View on Chekhov; 'Tree of Life' and 'Dead Waters': Why Was Rozanov Afraid of Chekhov?; II. Dmitrii Merezhkovskii; Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: Two Types of Artistic-Philosophical Consciousness; Negating His Own Negation: Merezhkovskii's Understanding of Chekhov's Role in Russian Culture; An Illuminating Misinterpretation? On Merezhkovskii's Literary Criticism of Chekhov; Can Merezhkovskii See the Spirit in the Prose of Flesh?; III. Lev Shestov; Lev Shestov on Chekhov; Between Tragedy and Aesthetics: Shestov's Reading of Chekhov – A Gaze Directed Within; Shestov – Chekhov, Chekhov – Shestov; Philosophy’s Enemies: Chekhov and Shestov; Notes on Contributors

Product details

• Authors: Olga Tabachnikova
• Assisted by: Olga Tabachnikova (Editor), Tabachnikova Olga (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780857285744
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-574-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form