The giants of Russian literature Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Summary: 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: electronic resource
access
remote
1 sound file (ca. 8 hr.) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; [Prince Frederick, Md.] : [Distributed by] OneClick Digital, 2011, p2006.

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.