The giants of Russian literature [electronic resource] : Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov / Liza Knapp.
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781449899134
- Physical Description: 1 sound file (ca. 8 hr.) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; 2011, p2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen (viewed March 3, 2011). "14 lectures." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Fiction, love, and death -- Ivan Turgenev : a Russian novelist at home and abroad ; Relations in Fathers and sons -- Bridging the generation gap in Turgenev's Fathers and sons ; Love and death -- Fyodor Dostoevsky : writing for life -- In and out of the Underground : (a reading of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground) -- Calculating murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment -- Leo Tolstyoy and the search for meaning in life -- Entering the labyrinth of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Anton Chkhov : writer, doctor, humanist -- Chekhovian compassion : revisions of peasant life and adulterous love -- Love and death and the Russian point of view. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecture given by Liza Knapp. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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