Donna Tussing Orwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1555540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Tussing Orwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna Tussing |
| FAMILY NAME | Orwin |
| SIGNATURE | ORWIN D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6099-1481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tolstoy in Context
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
Desire, Death, and Imitation
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace
A Plot of Her Own
Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880
Tolstoy's Art and Thought 1847-1880
"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks , War and Peace , and Anna Karenina . Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for mo…
The Riddle of Prince Nexljudov
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Unity of Tolstoi's Early Works
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Unity of Tolstoi's Early Works
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Soul
There is a neglected but significant Platonic element in Tolstoi's art and psychology. It is worth studying for the light it sheds on the vexing problem of how Tolstoi can reconcile a seemingly determinist psychology based on strict causation with a belief in moral freedom. As Lidiia Ginsburg has pointed out, Tolstoi judges his characters even as he seems to deny them the possibility of moral responsibility.1 Although she regards this contradicti…
Prince Andrei
To refer to Prince Andrei as a rational man seems to flout Tolstoian psychological theory. In a passage from the second (unpublished) part of Youth that Boris Eikhenbaum treats as autobiographical, Tolstoi explains that one of his earliest maxims arose from a refutation of Descartes's "I think, therefore I am."I recall that the basis of my new philosophy was that man consisted of body, feelings, reason and will, but that the essence of the soul w…
The Riddle of Prince Nexljudov
Tolstoy's Art and Thought 1847-1880
"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks , War and Peace , and Anna Karenina . Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for mo…
Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880
A Plot of Her Own
Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace
The Return to Nature
In this essay, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin examines links between Tolstoy's writings and Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot
Desire, Death, and Imitation
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
Tolstoy in Context
Art (7 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)