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Bees and War and Peace by Michael A. Denner

This essay was originally published in the 2018 AATSEEL newsletter. A beekeeper sits in front of “Petersburg hives” (invented in 1814 by Pyotr Prokopovich) in the background, and log hives in the foreground. (Makovsky’s At the Aviary, На пасенке, Александр

Ani Kokobobo February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Literary Crticism, Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

“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

Ani Kokobobo October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 Contemporary Affairs, Literary Crticism, Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

Spirited in Flesh: A Mini-Conference on Tolstoy’s Art and Thought at Dartmouth College

By Victoria Juharyan Victoria Juharyan is a PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University (Lecturer at Dartmouth, during AY 2016-17). On May 26th, 2017 Dartmouth College hosted a conference on Tolstoy. This was an unusual conference. Dartmouth

Ani Kokobobo October 4, 2017October 9, 2017 Contemporary Affairs, Literary Crticism, Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

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