TY - BOOK AU - Jackson, Robert Louis AB - Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first (“Chance and Fate”), issues of freedom and responsibility, the necessity of free individual expression and yet the limits of will, or self-will; second (“Two Kinds of Beauty”), the unity of moral, esthetic, and spiritual categories, and the quest for the ideal; third (“Critical Perspectives”), examples of the type of commentary that approaches art with a unified ethical and spiritual perspective (Dostoevsky, Gorky, V.I. Ivanov, and the partially dissenting Bakhtin); and fourth (“Poems of Parting”), three poems (works by Tyutchev, Severyanin, and Pushkin) involving parting, loss, and recovery. DO - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxshr0 ID - OAPEN ID: 641417 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 849946351 KW - Arts KW - Literary Collections KW - Alexander Pushkin KW - Fyodor Dostoevsky KW - Ivan Turgenev KW - Leo Tolstoy KW - Mikhail Bakhtin L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3649675d-9512-46ef-ab6b-051363ab5acd/641417.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30925 PB - Academic Studies Press PP - Boston, MA PY - 2013-03-01 SN - 9781618116772;9781618119179 TI - Close Encounters : Essays on Russian Literature ER -