Hunting Nature : : Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World / / Thomas P. Hodge.

In Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting-the most unquenchable passion of his life. Informed by an ecocritical perspective, Hodge takes an approach that is equal parts interpretive and documen...

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Superior document:Contemporary Western Rusistika
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Place / Publishing House:Brookline, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Sovremennai︠a︡ zapadnai︠a︡ rusistika.
Physical Description:1 online resource (404 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Technical Matters
  • Introduction: The Hunting Writer: An Ecocritical Approach
  • 1 Catching Nature by the Tail
  • 2 The Gun before the Lyre: Turgenev Afield
  • 3 "A Different Kind of Game": Notes of a Hunter
  • 4 Thinking Oneself into Nature: The Aksakov Reviews and Their Aftermath
  • 5 Nature and Nidification: "Journey to the Forest-Belt," Rudin, A Gentry Nest
  • 6 Life at the Lek: On the Eve, "First Love," Fathers and Children
  • Conclusion: "I'm a Sportsman": Deviations and Doubts
  • End Matter
  • Appendix 1 Turgenev on Nature's Indifference: A Chronology
  • Appendix 2 [On S. T. Aksakov's Notes of an Orenburg-Province Hunter]
  • Appendix 3 S. Aksakov's Notes of an Orenburg-Province Hunter. Moscow, 1852
  • Appendix 4 "The Hunter's Fifty Flaws and Fifty Flaws of a Gun Dog"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.