The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction

by Helena Goscilo

Overview

This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563248580
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/1996
Series:	Writers' Worlds Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1700L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Paradise, Purgatory, and Post-Mortems: The Lapsarian Myth as Universal Rite of Passage; Chapter 2 Language and the Soul’s Dark Night in Childhood; Chapter 3 Tolstayan Love as Surface Text; Chapter 4 The Eternal Feminine’s Liebestod Transposed to Baser Clef; Chapter 5 Monsters Monomaniacal, Marital, and Medical: Tolstaya’s Regenerative Use of Gender Stereotypes; Chapter 6 Perspective in Tolstaya’s Wonderland of Art; Chapter 7 Fantasy and Fatality: Narrative as Creative and Killing Strategy; Chapter 8 Tolstayan Times: Traversals and Transfers; Chapter 9 Tolstayan Tropes: Perils, Pleasures, and Epiphanies; Postscript;