Tolstoy Studies Journal

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The Tables of Content for individual isses are provided below.

Volume I, 1988

Gary Saul Morson, "Prosaics and Anna Karenina"
ROUND TABLE: Richard F. Gustafson, Leo Tolstoy. Resident and Stranger
Critiques: Victor Terras, Robert C. Williams, Richard Gregg, Donna Orwin, Philip C. Rule
Reply: Richard F. Gustafson
RECENT DISSERTATIONS: Pamela Chester, "Hagiography in the Prose of Tolstoy and Leskov"
Carolyn McMartin, "The Chronicle"
Annotated Bibliography
Amy Mandelker and Frank Silbajoris, "A Report on the Soviet-American Tolstoy Conference"
Robert Whittaker, "The Tolstoy Archival and Manuscript Project"

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Volume II, 1989

ROUND TABLE: Gary Saul Morson, Hidden in Plain View. Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace
Critiques: Freeman Dyson, Alfred J. Rieber, Cathy Popkin, Carol Any, Anna A. Tavis
Reply: Gary Saul Morson
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, "Helene as Pre-Oedipal Self-Object"
Pamela Chester, "Male and Female Sense of Self in Tolstoy's Trilogy and AnastasiaTsvetaeva's Memoirs"
Andrey Bely, "Teacher of Consciousness" (translated, with an essay by Olga Miller Cooke)
Karel Capek, "Masaryk and Tolstoy" (translated by Charles E. Townsend)
REVIEWS: A. N. Wilson, Tolstoy (Donna Orwin); Martine de Courcel, Tolstoy: The Ultimate Reconciliation (Caryl Emerson); Harold Bloom, ed., Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Kathleen Parthé); two articles by A. K. Zholkovsky (Donna Orwin); Peter Ulf Møller, Postlude to the Kreutzer Sonata (Amy Mandelker)
Amy Mandelker, "Re-reading Tolstoy:; New Directions in Tolstoy Scholarship"
Annotated Bibliography
RECENT DISSERTATIONS: Frank Ellis, "Concepts of War in L. N. Tolstoy and V. S. Grossman"
Robert H. Davis, Jr., "The Third Seminar on Tolstoy and America"

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Volume III, 1990

Ronald LeBlanc, "Levin Visits Anna: The Iconology of Harlotry"
Traci Carroll, "Sports/Writing and Tolstoy's Critique of Male Authority in Anna Karenina"
Elizabeth Trahan, "'The Divine and the Human. Or Three More Deaths': A Late Chapter in Tolstoy's Dialogue with Death"
Natasha Sankovitch, "Readers' Experience of Repetition in Tolstoy"
Dragan Milivojevic, "Tolstoy's Views of Buddhism"
Galya Diment, "'Tolstoy or Dostoevsky' and the Modernists: Polemics with Joseph Brodsky"
Amy Mandelker, "Feminist Criticism and Anna Karenina"
Anna Travis, "Comrade Lenin or Count Leo Tolstoy? Reflections after Some Memorable Meetings at Harrogat
Nathan Rosen, "Notes on War and Peace"
Scott Craig, "The Hunt for Truth in War and Peace"
REVIEWS: Jay Parini, The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (Caryl Emerson); Hugh McLean, ed., In the Shade of the Giant. Essays on Tolstoy (Edward Wasiolek); Alexander Fodor, A Quest for a Non-Violent Russia: The Partnership of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov (Zinaida Vaganova)
William Edgerton "Meeting an Old Tolstoyan Leader in Siberia"
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume IV, 1991

David Sloane, "Pushkin's Legacy in Anna Karenina"
Liza Knapp, "Tolstoy on Musical Mimesis: Platonic Aesthetics and Erotics in The Kreutzer Sonata"
Duffield White, "An Evolutionary Study of Tolstoy's First Story, The Raid"
Jane Gary Harris, "A Humanist Reading of Tolstoy: The Writings of Petr M. Bitsilli"
Dragan Milivojevic, "Some Similarities and Differences between Tolstoy's Concepts of Identity and Vocation and Their Parallels in Hinduism"
ROUND TABLE: Rimvydas Silbajoris, Tolstoy's Aesthetics and His Art
Discussants: Victor Terras, Charles Moser, Kathleen Parthé, Richard Gustafson
Gary Saul Morson, "The Tolstoy Questions, Reflections on the Silbajoris Thesis"
Professor Silbajoris Replies
REVIEWS: Michael R. Katz, ed., Tolstoy's Short Fiction (John Kopper); Gary Adelman, Anna Karenina: The Bitterness of Ectasy (Caryl Emerson); Eric de Haard, Narrative and Anti-Narrative Structures in Lev Tolstoy's Early Works (James Roney)
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume V, 1992

Thomas Barran, "Rousseau's Political Vision and Tolstoy's What is Art"
Robert Edwards, "Tolstoy and John Dewey: Pragmatism and Prosaics"
Galya Diment, "Tolstoy and Bloomsbury"
Philip Rogers, "Tolstoy's Hamlet"
Suzanne Osborne, "When a House is Not a Home: The Alien Residences of Effi Briest and Anna Karenina"
Anna Tavis, "Leo Tolstoy and James Joyce: Post-Communist Negotiations"
Robert Whittaker, "Americans Write to Tolstoy: A Report on the Tolstoy-USA Project"
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume VI, 1993: Special issue on Tolstoy and sexuality

Ronald LeBlanc, "Unpalatable Pleasures: Tolstoy, Food, and Sex"
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, "Anna's Adultery: Distal Sociobiology vs. Proximate Psychoanalysis"
Anthony Anemone, "Gender, Genre, and the Discourse of Imperialism in Tolstoy's Cossacks"
Dragan Kujundzic, "Pardoning Woman in Anna Karenina"
Robert Edwards, "Tolstoy and Alice B. Stockham: The Influence of Tokology on The Kreutzer Sonata"
Leo Tolstoy, "Preface to Tokology"
Robert Edwards, "A History of the Composition of the 'Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata'"
Leo Tolstoy, "Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata"
William Nickell, "The Twain Shall Be of One Mind: Tolstoy in 'Leag' with Eliza Burnz and Henry Parkhurst"
Leo Tolstoy, "On the Relations between the Sexes"
ROUND TABLE: Donna Tussing Orwin, Tolstoy's Art and Thought 1847-1880
Discussants: Caryl Emerson, Andrew Wachtel, Gary Jahn
Reply: Donna Orwin
REVIEWS: Gareth Williams, The Influence of Tolstoy on Readers of His Works (Natasha Sankovitch); William Edgerton, ed., Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia (Gina Kovarsky)
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume VII, 1994

Martin Bidney, "'Three Deaths' and 'How People Die': Insight and Idealization in Tolstoy and Zola"
Zinaida Vaganova, "Pushkin, Tolstoy, and the Potlatch: The Economy of Loss in Anna Karenina"
Curt Whitcomb, "Resisting the Effortless in Anna Karenina"
Olga Meerson, "Literary Genesis of a Justification for Killing: From Posterity to Forefathers"
Robert Edwards, "Prosaics and Pragmatism: Deweyan Philosophy through Tolstoyan Art"
ROUND TABLE: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Tolstoy's Pierre Bezhukov: A Psychoanalytic Study
Discussants: Brett Cooke, Ronald LeBlanc, Duffield White, James Rice
Reply: Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume VIII, 1995-1996: Special issue on Anna Karenina

David Herman, "Allowable Passions in Anna Karenina"
Svetlana Evdokimova, "The Drawing and the Grease Spot: Creativity and Interpretation in Anna Karenina"
Amy Mandelker, "Illustrate and Condemn: The Phenomenology of Vision in Anna Karenina"
Gina Kovarsky, "Mimesis and Moral Education in Anna Karenina"
Liza Knapp, "The Estates of Pokrovskoe and Vosdvizhenskoe: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Linkings in Anna Karenina"
Justin Weir, "Anna Incommunicada: Language and Consciousness in Anna Karenina"
Ian Saylor, "Anna Karenina and Don Giovanni: The Vengeance Motif in Oblonsky's Dream"
James Rice, "Some Observations on Stiva's Dream"
William Mills Todd III, "Reading Anna in Parts"
ROUND TABLE: Amy Mandelker, Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel
Discussants: Caryl Emerson, Charles Isenberg, Donna Orwin
Reply: Amy Mandelker
REVIEW: Gary Saul Morson, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (Hans Jürg Rindisbacher and Larissa Rudova
Caryl Emerson, "Prosaics in Anna Karenina: Pro and Con"
Gary Saul Morson, "Poetic Justice, False Listening, and Falling in Love, Or, Why Anna Refuses a Divorce"
Annotated Bibliography

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Volume IX, 1997

Volume X, 1998

Volume XI, 1999

Volume XIV, 2002

Donna Tussing Orwin, "Note from the Editor"
Caryl Emerson, "Leo Tolstoy and the Rights of Music under Stalin (Another look at Prokofiev's Party-Minded Masterpiece, War and Peace)"
Sarah Hudspith, "Narrative and Miscarriages of Justice in Tolstoy's Resurrection"
Hugh McLean, "A Clash of Utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky"
Harriet Murav, "Maslova's Exorbitant Body"
From the history of Tolstoy criticism: Fedor Sologub's "The One Path of Lev Tolstoy", introduction, translation, and annotation by Jason Merrill
Poetry: Carl Dennis, "Audience", Anne Carson, "TVMen: Tolstoy"
Archival research: Excerpts from A.D. Donskov, ed., Z.N. Ivanova and L.D. Gromova, compilers. Iz arkhiva N.N. Guseva: Novye materialy o L.N. Tolstom. (Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and State L.N. Tolstoy Museum, Moscow, 2002). Introduction by Andrew Donskov; translations by John Woodsworth.
Research notes: Lidiia Gromova-Opulskaia, "Was Levin's sky 'high' or 'quiet' in Anna Karenina?"; Carol Flath and Richard Sheldon, "Two More Views on the Pevear-Volokhonsky Translation of Anna Karenina", with a response from Hugh McLean
Tolstoy scholarship in Russia and abroad: Paul Haddock, "Recent Publications and Annotated Bibliography for 2001-2002"; Mark Conliffe, "Supplement to the Annotated Bibliography for 1988-1994"
Reviews: Lev Anninsky. Okhota na L'va (Michael Denner); A.D. Donskov, ed., Z.N. Ivanova and L.D. Gromova, compilers. Iz arkhiva N.N. Guseva: Novye materialy o L.N. Tolstom (Gary Jahn); Anna Glebovna Grodetskaia. Otvety predaniia: zhitiia sviatykh v dukhovnom poiske L'va Tolstogo; Helena Goscilo and Petre Petrov, eds. Anna Karenina on Page & Screen, Studies in Slavic Cultures II (Justin Weir); Donna Orwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (Julie Buckler)
News from the Profession: Conference in Tbilisi (Anna Hruska), Harvard Tolstoy Conference (Justin Weir)

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Volume XV, 2002

Easley, Roxanne. Count L.N. Tolstoy, Peace Arbitrator 1861-1862. pp. 1-18.
Galagan, Galina Ia. Tolstoy's Confession: The Conception of a Worldview [Translated by Dale Peterson]. pp. 19-24.
Jackson, Robert Louis. Scenes from the Apocalypse in Tolstoy;s War and Peace: The Lion of Judah. pp. 25-34.
Love, Jeff. The End of Knowing in War and Peace. pp. 35-49.
Oliver, Donna. Dolokhov as Romantic Parody: Ambiguity and Incongruity in Tolstoy;s Pre-Byronic Hero. pp. 50-66.
Scanlan, James. From William James to Karl Marx: David Kvitko's Studies of Tolstoy the Thinker. pp. 67-78.
Tsurikov, N.A. Encounters with Tolstoy. Translated, introduced, and annotated by Vladimir A. Tsurikov. pp. 79-98.
Gregg, Richard. Tolstoy as Goldilocks: The Solution to a Mystery. p. 99.
Haddock, Paul. Recent Publications and Annotated Bibliography, 2002-2003. pp. 100-105.
Conliffe, Mark. Supplement to the Annotated Bibliography for 1988-1994. pp. 107-110.
Mandelker, Amy. Kåre Johan Mjør. Desire, Death, and Imitation. Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy. Bergen, Norway: Slavica Bergensia 4 (2002). pp. 111-112.
Cruise, Edwina. Liza Knapp and Amy Mandelker, eds. Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. pp. 112-114.
Mandelker, Amy. Anna in the Tropics. A play in two acts, by Nilo Cruz. pp. 114-116.
Gromova-Opul'skaia. Sergei Romanov, ed. Russkie mysliteli o Tolstom. Tula: "Iasnaia Poliana"
L.D. Publishers, 2002 [Text of review translated by Lonny Harrison]. pp. 117-121.
McLean, Hugh. L.N. Tolstoi and N.N. Strakhov. L.N. Tolstoi I N.N. Strakhov: Polnoe sobranie perepiski. A.A. Donskov, ed.; L.D. Gromova and T.G. Nikiforova, compilers. Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and Moscow: L.N. Tolstoy State Museum, 2003. 2 vols. pp. 122-124.
Hudspith, Sarah. [Account of] L.N. Tolstoi v dvizhenii vremeni. Linked conferences in honour of the 175th anniversary of the writer's birth. Iasnaia Poliana, Tula, Moscow, 28 August – 5 September 2003. pp. 125-129.