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tolstoyan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tolstoyan \Tol*stoy"an\, Tolstoian \Tol*stoi"an\, a. Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). -- n. A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.
Usage examples of "tolstoyan".
Lyovin brings the Tolstoyan ideal of harmony, responsibility, tenderness, truth, and family joys.
And furthermore, Beust himself acquires a little sparkle by his participating in a Tolstoyan paragraph, in a fictitious world.
Chekhovian versus the Tolstoyan approach: educe these worlds entire, or sketch them, evoke them, from the glint of moonlight off a broken bottle, footprints on the beach, one episode from a single life.
Joan of Arc, a woman waving on men to war with the sword, have fared among the Quakers or the Doukhabors or the Tolstoyan sect of pacifists?
Here a different kind of huntsman could find all sorts of Turgenevian and Tolstoyan game, but for the young Nabokov, a slender boy in a straw hat, there lurked wonderful species of northern, almost arctic, butterflies.
It is constantly assumed, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.
Gospels, harmonizing all the contradictory versions of what Jesus said and did into one Tolstoyan text.
What role does Tolstoyan comprehensive truth play for Dostoevsky, and how does Dostoevsky approach and embody such truth?
What makes the prince a Dostoevskian and not a Tolstoyan carrier of truth?
Bakhtin closes Tolstoy down, makes his contradictions less provocative, and never satisfactorily confronts the complex issue of personality in the Tolstoyan novel.
The ability to assume and shed ideas, to pass through and remain open to as many life situations as possible, is precisely what defines a major Tolstoyan hero.
Those lives stand for too many things, and Tolstoyan characters are related to one another in a different way.
Bakhtinian model, in sum, does not really allow for any investigation of the Tolstoyan sense of self.
Bakhtin saw the Tolstoyan self, at its most intense moments, vainly seeking that nirvana, which to Bakhtin was nonexistence.
I will attempt to show how this seemingly anomalous image is actually related to a series of Tolstoyan linguistic devices for depicting death, and is in fact the ultimate device in that series.