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Conversion as Narrative: Radical Personal Transformation in the Life and Art of L. N. Tolstoy, 1879-1910
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Conversion as Narrative: Radical Personal Transformation in the Life and Art of L. N. Tolstoy, 1879-1910. |
| 개인저자 | Stavis, Jesse. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. Slavic Languages & Literature. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2016. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016. |
| 형태사항 | 297 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781687910684 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Shevelenko, Irina. |
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| 요약 | This study focuses on representations of radical personal transformation in a number of fictional, autobiographical, and publicistic works dating from L. N. Tolstoy's late period (1879-1910). I posit that Tolstoy's account of his own conversion was neither an accurate portrayal of the writer's lived experience nor a complete fabrication. Rather, it represented a highly stylized narrative account that mixed truth with fiction. Ironically, the transformation that supposedly signaled Tolstoy's rejection of his earlier literary productions largely reiterated a model of personal transformation that was first developed in those very works. An approach that treats Tolstoy's own conversion as the reiteration of a narrative structure rather than as a fundamentally new experience allows us to draw broader conclusions regarding his artistic evolution and the evolution of the Russian realist tradition as a whole. The study includes three chapters. The first chapter discusses the evolution of the field of conversion studies from its inception in the late nineteenth century to the present day, and argues for a narratological approach to conversion, one that frames the phenomenon as a textual representation of spiritual experience rather than as a category of experience itself. The second chapter is primarily devoted to an analysis of Tolstoy's Confession. While critics have often viewed the text as a more or less accurate autobiographical account, I demonstrate its fictive nature through a comparison of the autobiographical account that Tolstoy presents and the documentary evidence regarding the events in question. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of several fictional productions that were composed in the 1880s and 1890s. The third chapter presents a close reading of Tolstoy's last major novel, Resurrection. While the work has long been seen as an artistically flawed attempt to express late Tolstoyan moral teachings and political critiques in the form of a fictional narrative, I argue that it can also be read as a subtle meditation on the limitations of its author's own claimed conversion. This interpretation is supported by an analysis of Father Sergius, a text in which the element of self-criticism is presented in a far more explicit form. |
| 일반주제명 | Slavic literature. Religion. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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