New Book on Turgenev

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Turgenev
Art, Ideology and Legacy

Edited by Robert Reid and Joe Andrew

Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. XIII, 343 pp. (Studies in Slavic Literature
and Poetics
56)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3147-0                        Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-3148-7                        E-Book
Online info: <http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=SSLP+56>

Turgenev is in many ways the most enigmatic of the great
nineteenth-century Russian
writers. A realist, he was nevertheless drawn towards symbolism and the
supernatural
in his later career. Renowned for his authentic depictions of Russian
life, he spent
long periods in Europe and was more Western in outlook than many of his
contemporaries. Though he stood aloof from politics, the major political
issues of
nineteenth-century Russia are central to his fiction. Interest in Turgenev
remains
strong in the twenty-first century, sustained by the amenability of his
work to
contemporary critical approaches and also by a recognition of the continuing
relevance of his perspective on the perennial complexities of Russia's
relations
with Europe. This volume provides ample evidence of this interest. The
chapters
which comprise it are written by specialists on the writer and cover many
aspects of
Turgenev's creativity from his artistic method to such issues as the
Jewish Question
and Europe. It also examines his cultural legacy - in film and recent popular
re-writes of his novels - as well as his influence on writers as diverse
as Rozanov
and Robert Dessaix. This work will be of interest to students,
postgraduates and
specialists in the field of Russian literary culture.

Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Robert Reid: Introduction: Turgenev: Art, Ideology and Legacy
Turgenev's Art
Irene Masing-Delic: Hidden Spaces in Turgenev's Short Prose: What They
Conceal and
What They Show
Steven Brett Shaklan: 'So Many Foreign and Useless Words!': Ivan
Turgenev's Poetics
of Negation
Joost van Baak: Turgenev-Bricoleur: Observations on the World of
Turgenev's Sketches
from a Hunter's Album
Sander Brouwer: First Love, but not First Lover: Turgenev's Poetics of
Unoriginality
Erica Siegel: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Language of Things
in Fathers
and Sons
Willem G. Weststeijn: The Description of the Appearance of Characters in
Turgenev's
Novels (in particular Fathers and Sons)
Turgenev's Ideology
Kathryn Ambrose: Turgenev's Representation of the 'New People'
Richard Freeborn: No Smoke without a Bit of Fire
Elena Katz: Turgenev and the 'Jewish Question'
Greta Slobin: Turgenev Finds a Home in Russia Abroad
Turgenev's Legacy
Justin Weir: Turgenev as Institution: Sketches from a Hunter's Album in
Tolstoi's
Early Aesthetics
Henrietta Mondry: A Wrong Kind of Love - A Teacher of Sex on a Teacher of
Love:
Vasilii Rozanov on Turgenev and Viardot
Otto Boele: After Death, the Movie (1915) - Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer
and the
Aesthetics of Morbidity
Rachel Morley: Performing Femininity in an Age of Change: Evgenii Bauer, Ivan
Turgenev and the Legend of Evlaliia Kadmina
Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland: Turgenev's Antipodean Echoes: Robert
Dessaix and his
Russian Mentor
Olga Soboleva and Pogos Saiadian: Ivan Sergeev, Fathers and Sons: The
Phenomenon of
the Nouveau-Russian Novel
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