War and Peace
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- novalis
i have a test on it tomorrow and i'm only about 500 pages into it. :(
also, have to write a draft of a 30 min presentation connecting tolstoy's phillosophy with those of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau.
any ideas?
- Fariska0
Except "my dog ate my homework?"
Ehm.. no, sorry, didn't read it
- davey_g0
Cliff Notes man! Where ya been?
- ********0
I think the connection you may find between Tolstoy and the Transcendentalists, is some sort of relation to the Truth (God, Self, Nature, etc) and the individual in a rational basis.
A rational/methodicla approach to a problem (Belief) that commonly is or is not felt by people. In both there's the sense of Isolating the individual in reflection directly upon the observation of Life and Nature. That was called "Realism" in Europe. In the Americas, which have inherited the English Romantism, it gained a spiritual (countryside) contour that Emerson and Thoureau develop -- but the names are irrelevant. The basic idea is the connection between Man and the Infinte, and the joy of lingering rationally in all its detail.
more info here:
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Re…
http://eserver.org/thoreau/walde…
I hope that helps.
- prophet0NE0
In addition, the Tolstoy's working copy of War and Peace was originally entitled "War, What Is It Good For?".
- ********0
Title: "They were all hippies!" :D
j/k.
a 30 min presentation seems too long. Although War and Peace has about a zillion pages, i think you better throw some NASA eery Saturn sounds into it. Cool stuff.
PhD Thesis: "Man and Infinite"
Title: "Tolstoy and Thoreau as quintessencial predecessors of the Cassini Spacecraft Exploits"
Sub-title: "Studies into the Rational/Emotinal approach to the Outward Space based on a Analytical Epicentre unto which Observation follows the Readings of Nature".
;)
- version30
as per davey's suggestion
- ********0
wow,
good link version3.
damn i really like literature and i really like graphics...
I wish there could be more of a mix between these two...
* sobs till morn.
- novalis0
hey, thanks guys, interesting stuff witt -- i'm definitely planning on pulling in existensial stuff from the americans, and there's certainly stuff in there that tolstoy wrote about. i think what will be interesting will be examining the areas where they disagree. i just have to figure out where those are, of course.
but just back from a study group where we went over the characters and stuff, so feel pretty good about the test. so far.
- nLHb0
"war, what is it good for?"
Elaine Bennis
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
i'd drop out if my assignment were to read that.
- woof0
Tomorrow? lol.
30mins you better taaaalkkk sllloooowwwlllyyyyyy.
And, oh, yes, show slides of course.