Introduction : Tolstoy and his problems, choosing a perspective / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Prologue : Tolstoy's nihilism / Jeff Love -- Tolstoy as social theorist / Michael A. Denner -- The transformation of the mystical tradition in Tolstoy's art and religious thought / Vladimir M. Paperni -- Tolstoy's Jewish questions / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Laughing with the Count : the humor in War and peace and beyond / Jeffrey Brooks -- Five principles of Tolstoy's educational thought / Daniel Moulin-Stożek -- Tolstoy, opera, and the problem of aesthetic seduction / Stephen Halliwell -- Tolstoy against Shakespeare (a theatrical feud featuring George Bernard Shaw) / Caryl Emerson -- Epilogue : What can we, in the twenty-first century, learn from Tolstoy? : ruminations on reading all ninety volumes of The Jubilee edition of Tolstoy's complete works; . . . and a bit about pigeons, cookies and milk, and snails . . . / Ellen Chances.
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Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
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