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
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
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).