Dear Colleagues, On August 11-15, 2018 the State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana will be hosting XI International Academic Conference Tolstoy and World Literature. Problems of Tolstoy’s work and art in the context of Russian and World Literature,
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
Erica Drennan is a PhD Student in Russian Literature at Columbia University Upon arriving at Primary Stages’ production of The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, audience members were asked to choose a pin
An Unexpected Trifecta: War, Peace, and DH
Molly Godwin-Jones & Devin McFadden Molly Godwin-Jones & Devin McFadden are graduate students in the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas How do you get a linguist and a 20th century specialist interested in Tolstoy?
“And here it is, here it is”: Locating The Uncanny in War and Peace
by Suvij Sudershan Suvij Sudershan is an undergraduate student at McGill University Tolstoy’s War and Peace foregrounds the spatial dimension. This is especially relevant as the novel is set in times of the modern nation-state and the nineteenth century redefinition of
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