The giants of Russian literature : Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Summary: Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors.
Contents:
- Fiction, love, and death
- Ivan Turgenev : a Russian novelist at home and abroad ; Relations in Fathers and sons
- Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons ; Love and death
- Fyodor Dostoevsky : writing for life
- In and out of the Underground : (a reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground)
- Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment
- Leo Tolstyoy and the search for meaning in life
- Entering the labyrinth of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
- Anton Chkhov : writer, doctor, humanist
- Chekhovian compassion : revisions of peasant life and adulterous love
- Love and death and the Russian point of view.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md.
, [Prince Frederick, Md.]
, Recorded Books
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Language(s): English
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Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors.
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[Distributed by] OneClick Digital
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