Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View

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Springer, 14.09.2009 - 265 Seiten
This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.
 

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Russophilia
1
Dostoevsky The dim and populous underworld
19
Chekhov An astonishing sense of freedom
59
Tolstoy Genius in the raw
97
Turgenev A passion for art
131
Conclusion The accent falls a little differently
157
Virginia Woolf s Reading Notes on Russian Literature
163
Reading Notes on Dostoevskys
164
Tchekhov on Pope Typescript of Unpublished Review
186
Reading Notes on Anna Karenina I
193
Reading Notes on Anna Karenina II
195
Reading Notes on War and Peace
203
Reading Notes on Turgenev
204
Notes
229
Works cited
245
Index
253

Tchekov on Pope Holograph Draft
175
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

admired aesthetic Anna Karenina appears artistic Bennett Berg Collection British characters Chekhov Chekhov’s stories Cherry Orchard Common Reader Constance Garnett contemporary critical Dalloway death diary Dostoevsky Dostoevsky’s fiction Edwardian ellipsis ellipsis in original emotional emphasis English Estate of Virginia experience expressed feeling Hogarth Press Holograph holograph draft House of Gentlefolk ideas imagination Jacob’s Room later Leonard Woolf literary live method mind Modern Novels narrative narrator novelist Novels of Turgenev observations one’s Pargiter passage Peace Phases of Fiction phrases plays Point of View Pope Pope’s Possessed psychological published essay questions Rape Reading Notebook reading notes reread Russian literature Russian Point Russophilia S. S. Koteliansky scene seems Septimus sketch Smith H soul Stavrogin suggest suicide technique thing thought tion Tolstoy Tolstoy’s Trans transcription translation Turgenev’s fiction typescript Uncle Vanya Virginia Woolf Vronsky War and Peace Woolf’s reading words Yale Review

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ROBERTA RUBENSTEIN is Professor of Literature at American University, USA and author of Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction.

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TitelVirginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View
Autor/inR. Rubenstein
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagSpringer, 2009
ISBN0230100554, 9780230100558
Länge265 Seiten
  
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