_Tolstoy Studies Journal_ for 1998

[Donna Orwin]

Dear Colleagues,

The 1998 issue of _Tolstoy Studies Journal_ (number X) has gone to press
and will be ready for purchase in mid December.  I urge you to subscribe
to the Tolstoy Society in order to have your copy mailed immediately
after it comes from the printer.  Please ask your library to subscribe
as well. Remember that the journal and its activities are funded almost
entirely through subscriptions and donations and CANNOT CONTINUE WITHOUT
YOUR SUPPORT.

Prices are $20US for individuals and $35US for institutions.  To order
your copy, write our subscriptions editor

                Professor Edwina Cruise
                Department of Russian
                Mt. Holyoke College
                So. Hadley, MA  01075

Professor Cruise's email address is ecruise at mtholyoke.edu.  You may also
consult our website at http://www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy.

Here is the Table of Contents for the upcoming issue.

Articles

"Raphael Lowenfeld: Leo Tolstoy's First Biographer"
Remarks Presented at Iasnaia Poliana, September 30, 1998
                        Peter G. Crane

"The Function of Pain in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'ich"
                        David Danaher

"Anna Karenina's Peter Pan Syndrome"
                        Vladimir Golstein

"On the Style of A Story for the People"
                        Gary R. Jahn

"Language and Death in Tolstoy's Childhood and Boyhood:
Rousseau and the Holy Fool"
                        Liza Knapp

"Leskov, Tolstoy, and the Three Questions"
                        Irmhild Christina Sperrle



Archival Research

"Leo Tolstoy and James Mavor"
                        Galina Alexeeva




Tolstoy Scholarship in Russia and Abroad

        "Candidate and Doctoral Dissertations Written in the former
Soviet
Union (FSU) and Russia on Leo Tolstoy, 1941-1997"
                        Halimur Khan

"Annotated Bibliography for 1997 and early 1998"
                        Mark Conliffe

Report from Iasnaia Poliana, September 29-October 3, 1998.
                        William Nickell

Request from the Editorship of the New Academic Edition of Tolstoy's
writings




Reviews

George R. Clay. Tolstoy's Phoenix: From Method to Meaning in War and
Peace.  Reviewed by David Sloane.

        A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts To Nourish the Soul Written
and
Selected from the World's Sacred Texts by Leo Tolstoy.  Translated by
Peter Sekirin.  Reviewed by Michael Heim.

        Natasha Sankovitch. Creating and Recovering Experience:
Repetition in Tolstoy.  Reviewed by Gina Kovalsky.

        Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Bernard Rose's "Anna Karenina":
And Never the Twain Shall Meet?  Reviewed by Ellen Chances.


        Shared Experience's Anna Karenina
adapted from Leo Tolstoy's novel by Helen Edmundson, directed by Nancy
premiered on January 30, 1992. Review based on performance at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York,
November 11 14, 1998.
By Anja Grothe, City University of New York

        Tolstoy, S. L.  Sergej Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada:
Diary and correspondence (Sergej Tolstoj i dukhobortsy: puteshestvie v
Kanadu: Dnevnik i perepiska).  Tatyana Nikiforova, comp. and notes.
John Woodsworth, trans.  Andrew Donskov, ed.  Tolstoy Series, 1.
Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa, and Moscow:
L. N. Tolstoy State Museum, 1998.  xiii + 402 pp.


Once again, I urge you all to subscribe.

Sincerely,

Donna Orwin, Editor
_Tolstoy Studies Journal_
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