| Description |
7 audio discs (approximately 7 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (96 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Modern scholar |
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Modern scholar.
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| Performer |
Professor Liza Knapp, lecturer. |
| System Details |
Compact disc. |
| Bibliography |
Course guide includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores that tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Fiction, love, and death -- Lecture 2. Ivan Turgenev: a Russian novelist; Relations in Fathers and sons -- Lecture 3. Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons: love and death -- Lecture 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: writing for life -- Lecture 5. In and out of the underground (A reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground) -- Lecture 6. Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment -- Lecture 7. The power of compassion in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment -- Lecture 8. Leo Tolstoy and the search for meaning in life -- Lecture 9. Entering the labyright of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Lecture 10. Anna Karenina and the tangled skein of plot -- Lecture 11. Love and death in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Lecture 12. Anton Chekhov: writer, doctor, humanist -- Lecture 13. Chekhovian compassion: revisions of peasant life and adulterous love -- Lecture 14. Love and death and the Russian point of view. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Sound recordings.
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Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Sound recordings.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Sound recordings.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Sound recordings.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Recorded Books, Inc. Publisher.
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| ISBN |
1428112936 set |
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1428112944 course guide |
| Standard No. |
9781428112933 |
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9781428112940 |
| Music No. |
UC084 Recorded Books |
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