A Change of Heart: What It's Like to Live in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

  • Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2024, v. 70, n. 2. P. 306 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ong, Yi-Ping 3 of 3

Abstract

Michael W. Clune argues in A Defense of Judgment that aesthetic education can unleash our capacity to critique our values and transform our preferences and desires. Works of art hold the possibility of self-transcendence and unselfing; expertise in aesthetic judgment enables us to enter into this possibility. But how do we come to want to change what we want within a culture that conceals the value of this practice? Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) stages how a change of heart in the midst of everyday reality can reorient us to the possibility of a new life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2024/06, Vol. 70, Issue 2, p306
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0026-7724
  • DOI:10.1353/mfs.2024.a928346
  • Accession Number:177435854
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