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| Author(s): |
Luíza Nascimento Almeida
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-11-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Elena Vassina;
Ekaterina Volkova Americo;
Guilherme Werlang da Fonseca Costa do Couto;
Natalia Cristina Quintero Erasso;
Denise Regina de Sales
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| Advisor: | Elena Vassina |
| Abstract | |
Taking its cue from the novel \"Cossacks\" Lev Tolstoy\'s work that featuring the Grebenski Cossacks as protagonists the thesis develops an extensive study of the \"natural man\" and music, his most remarkable means of expression and a product of his relationship with his surroundings. This study bases itself on the writings of philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau the Russian author\'s premier influence regarding the State of Nature and the origins of musical language and, allegedly, the earliest means of communication borne out of his moral (and not physical) need to establish contact with his equal. The first chapter deals with the Caucasus, a mountainous region in southern Russia where the story takes place as do numerous masterpieces that preceded Tolstoy\'s novel. Subsequent chapters attempt to explain the reasons why the author presented his character, a successor to Rousseau\'s \"noble savage\", as a man craving for music a \"Music-Man\", so to speak. As such, this study intends to trail Tolstoy\'s own path and map out his relationship with music and with this traditional man so often portrayed, under numerous guises, in his oeuvre. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/25193-3 - LITERARY CREATION MOVEMENTS IN LEV TOLSTOY: A Study in the Representation of Natural Man and of Russian Musical Tradition as seen in "Cossacks-A Tale of the Caucasus" |
| Grantee: | Luiza Nascimento Almeida |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |