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Month: March 2018

THE ANNA KARENINA DIARIES

By Robert (Bob) Blaisdell, Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) Preface The first time I read Anna Karenina, I was eighteen and it took me a little less than three days. I mention that not as a matter

Ani Kokobobo March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

Return to Innocence in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych by Randy Landers

I have heard the song “Return to Innocence” by Enigma many times, and it expresses a soothing ideology. But just what does this mean and is it possible? In Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych, Ivan Ilych changes from

Ani Kokobobo March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

Call for Papers MLA 2019

Tolstoy as a Modern Social Thinker Tolstoy’s ideas about the workings of society and state; his national and global interventions. Are they relevant today? 200-word abstract and 3-page CV by March 15; Edyta Bojanowska (edyta.bojanowska@yale.edu).​

Ani Kokobobo March 2, 2018 Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

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