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Book SynopsisConsequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.
Trade Review"
Consequences of Consciousness is an estimable scholarly endeavor, expertly researched, frequently thought-provoking, and blessedly free of jargon. Shedding new light and revealing light on the interrelationships among the three literary giants of nineteenth-century Russia, it will make its readers far more conscious of the workings of consciousness in both Russian and western literature." --
Slavic Review"
Consequences of Consciousness offers a particularly rich sense of the interactions among these three writers (and some others, like Herzen) as, in overt and implicit reference to each other, they debated and redebated ethics, meaning, and selfhood...I hope I do not exaggerate, but it seems to me that Orwin has put her finger on the pulse of Russian realism and reminded us why it matters." --
Russian Review"The great Russian Realists were also great lay psychologists. In a century bewitched by norms and the pursuit of scientific truths, they set out to defend the absolute reality of each person's subjectivity. Orwin's wonderful study helps us to see, once again, how subtle are the narrative techniques that transmit ordinary irreducible life and why the quest to legitimize individualized experience results paradoxically in a Russian novel where each reader (from a vast variety of eras, cultures, languages) feels uniquely 'at home.'" -- Caryl Emerson * Princeton University *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Note on Documentation iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. The Origins of Self-Consciousness as a National Trait of the Russian Literary Tradition 000 2. Turgenev: Subjectivity in the Shadows 000 3. Dostoevsky's Hidden Author 000 4. Taming the Author: The Platonic and the Turgenevian Moments in Tolstoy's Fiction 000 5. Romantic Longing in Turgenev 000 6. Dostoevsky's Critique of Turgenev 000 7. Reflection as a Tool for Understanding in Russian Psychological Prose 000 8. Childhood in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy 000 9. The Psychology of Evil in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
