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The Presentation of Death in Tolstoy's Prose

Josef Metzele (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

151 Seiten

1996
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-49721-0 (ISBN)

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This study examines one of the recurrent themes in Russian literature. It deals with the presentation of death in L.N. Tolstoy's narratives. Whereas the majority of critics have dealt with this topic from a philosophical and religious perspective, this study attempts to analyse its artistic, that is, its thematic and stylistic aspects. In approaching this complex theme, the author distinguishes between major modes and submodes of death (natural vs. violent, potentiality vs. materialization) to provide some of the elementary components of a "poetics" of death. The results of this study underline Tolstoy's artistic sophistication in the presentation of this eternal, yet complex subject.

The Author: Josef Metzele was born in Martin (Czechoslovakia) in 1956. He has studied English and Russian languages and literatures at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and continued his studies abroad. In 1988 he obtained his M.A. degree in Russian literature at the University of Waterloo (Canada), and his Ph.D. in Slavic Studies at the University of Ottawa in 1994.

Contents: This dissertation analyses Tolstoy's great novels as well as his outstanding novellas and short stories.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1996
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 53
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Death • Metzele • presentation • Prose • Tolstoy
ISBN-10	3-631-49721-0 / 3631497210
ISBN-13	978-3-631-49721-0 / 9783631497210
Zustand	Neuware