{"product_id":"for-humanitys-sake-9781487541828","title":"For Humanitys Sake","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study links the careers of Russia's three most famous nineteenth-century authors  Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin  into a single narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steiner’s extended grasp of ‘dialogism’ on the cultural and psychological level is quite welcome… The overview of the emergence of modern Russian literature and intellectual debate is excellent in its clarity and coherence.\" -- Virgil Nemoianu * \u003cem\u003eThe Review of Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this original and wide-ranging intellectual history, Lina Steiner situates Herder’s view of culture at the core of a tradition of personal and national character formation in Russia.\" -- Yuri Corrigan, The College of Wooster * \u003cem\u003eCanadian Slavonic Papers\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Steiner demonstrates a genuine understanding of art, as well as thorough professional knowledge of cultural theory and the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Especially significant is Steiner’s decision, not only to consider the analyzed novels in terms of their individual literary context, but to immerse each one into the ‘turbulent sea’ of the Golden Age of Russian culture as well.\" -- Elena A. Krasnostchekova, University of Georgia * \u003cem\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[For Humanity’s Sake]’s ideas struck me as important as well as new, and I came away with a sense of a tradition of Russian thought I had not identified as such. As a result, the three novels analyzed, and implicitly many others, acquired a new freshness. It also does not hurt that Steiner writes crisp, lucid prose, free of jargon or clotted syntax. […] We never doubt why a set of facts or interpretations is offered.\" -- Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University * \u003cem\u003eSlavic and East European Journal\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Studies that place Russian intellectual history in both a Russian and non-Russian philosophical context are few and far between. This volume does that and so is an especially welcome and necessary addition to the body of criticism on the Russian nineteenth-century novel.\" -- A.J. DeBlasio, Dickinson College * \u003cem\u003eCHOICE Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction   Part I: Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian Soil   1. Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s    2. Apollon Grigor'ev's Theory of Russian Culture   3. Yurii Lotman's Idea of the “Semiosphere”   4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness    Part II: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence   5. Pushkin's Quest for National Culture: The Captain's Daughter as a Russian Bildungsroman   6. Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy's War and Peace   7. Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The Adolescent   Conclusion   Appendix: The Russian Texts   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409162379607,"sku":"9781487541828","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487541828.jpg?v=1730505701","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/for-humanitys-sake-9781487541828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}