Consequences of Consciousness

Russian psychological prose has made a distinct contribution to world culture - not only to literature, but also to practical psychology and even to neuropsychology. "Consequences of Consciousness" focuses primarily on Russian ideas of the self and subjectivity, and how these ideas find expression in the fiction of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - the most important founding authors of the Russian school of psychological realism. These writers explore both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness, and their books are as relevant today as they have ever been. Through close analysis of many well-known texts, Orwin reveals that these three authors conversed with each other through their works. She emphasizes the role Western thought played in the development of their psychological prose and how it was transformed by a Russian context.

ISBN 0804757038   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780804757034 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Stanford University Press   Weight (grammes) 508 Imprint Stanford University Press   Published in Palo Alto Format Hardback   Height (mm) 233 Publication date 15 Nov 2007   Width (mm) 163 Library of Congress 2007026789   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 891.73309   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		Acknowledgments
		Note on Documentation
		Introduction		1
1		The Origins of Self-Consciousness as a National Trait of the Russian Literary Tradition		12
2		Turgenev: Subjectivity in the Shadows		34
3		Dostoevsky's Hidden Author		46
4		Taming the Author: The Platonic and the Turgenevian Moments in Tolstoy's Fiction		57
5		Romantic Longing in Turgenev		76
6		Dostoevsky's Critique of Turgenev		92
7		Reflection as a Tool for Understanding in Russian Psychological Prose		113
8		Childhood in Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy		139
9		The Psychology of Evil in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky		158
		Conclusion		180
		Notes		189
		Selected Bibliography		217
		Index		229

"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"

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