Dessaix, Robert2017-11-292017-11-291974b1015418http://hdl.handle.net/1885/136558The 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.1venTurgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883Transcendentalism197410.25911/5d70f3b6b50012017-10-23