Transcendental themes in the works of I.S. Turgenev

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is an interpretive one: to elucidate certain themes in Turgenev's mature writings which are rarely investigated in depth or with a proper sense of their development and interaction and which may be broadly termed 'transcendental'; and to review what might be called the semantic thrust of Turgenev's works taken as a whole in the light of these newly emphasized transcendental themes.