Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev
Woodward, James B.
Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 1990 - 1 electronic resource (186 p.)
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Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social chronicles, as Turgenev suggested, or are they rather to be seen as celebrations of life, of the beauty of love and youthful idealism? Are they paens to the nobility of the human spirit or ironic comments on human folly? The same questions are addressed in the present study, but the question with which it is principally concerned is that of the novels' essential character.
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b12254
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Literature & literary studies
altruism Conflict egoistic will Ivan Major Metaphysical natural law Novels philosophy and literature Schopenauer Study Turgenev Woodward
Metaphysical Conflict. A Study of the Major Novels of Ivan Turgenev - Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 1990 - 1 electronic resource (186 p.)
Open Access
Written between 1855 and 1862, the four novels "Rudin", "A Nest o f the Gentry", "On the Eve" and "Fathers and Sons" are generally recognised as Turgenev's most notable contribution to Russian and world literature. Are they primarily social chronicles, as Turgenev suggested, or are they rather to be seen as celebrations of life, of the beauty of love and youthful idealism? Are they paens to the nobility of the human spirit or ironic comments on human folly? The same questions are addressed in the present study, but the question with which it is principally concerned is that of the novels' essential character.
Creative Commons
English
b12254
10.3726/b12254 doi
Literature & literary studies
altruism Conflict egoistic will Ivan Major Metaphysical natural law Novels philosophy and literature Schopenauer Study Turgenev Woodward