Close Encounters : Essays on Russian Literature.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introductory Note -- A Glance at the Essays -- Moral-Philosophical Subtext in Pushkin's The Stone Guest -- Turgenev's "Knock… Knock…Knock!..": The Riddle of the Story -- Polina and Lady Luck in Dostoevsky's The Gambler -- Pierre and Dolokhov at the Barrier: The Lesson of the Duel -- Chance and Design: Anna Karenina's First Meeting with Vronsky1 -- Breaking the Moral Barrier: Anna Karenina's Night Train to St. Petersburg -- Uzhas in the Subtext: Tolstoy's The Death -- Ivan Ilych1 -- "What Time Is It? Where Are We Going?" Chekhov's Cherry Orchard: The Story of a Verb -- Two Kinds of Beauty -- The Sentencing of Fyodor Karamazov -- The Defiled and Defiling "Physiognomy" of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov -- Dostoevsky's "Anecdote from a Child's Life": A Case of Bifurcation -- The Triple Vision: Dostoevsky's "The Peasant Marey" -- The Making of a Russian Icon: Solzhenitsyn's "Matryona's Home" -- Dostoevsky's Concept of Reality and Its Representation in Art1 -- In the Interests of Social Pedagogy: Maxim Gorky's Polemic with Dostoevsky -- Bakhtin's Poetics -- Dostoevsky and "Dostoevsky's Christian Declaration of Faith" -- Vyacheslav I. Ivanov's Poem "Nudus Salta!" and The Purpose of Art -- Intimations of Mortality: Fyodor I. Tyutchev's "In Parting there is a Lofty Meaning" -- The Poetry of Memory and the Memory of Poetry: Igor Severyanin's "No More Than a Dream" -- Supremum Vale: The Last Stanzas of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Goethe, Zhukovsky, and the Decembrists -- From the Other Shore: Nabokov's Translation into Russian of Goethe's "Dedication" to Faust -- Index.

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