The Cambridge Companion To Tolstoy

Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521520002

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The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin Pdf

Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5215200025

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Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Malcolm V. Jones,Robin Feuer Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521479096

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The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel by Malcolm V. Jones,Robin Feuer Miller Pdf

Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.

Author : Michael A. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050068

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The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon by Michael A. Flower Pdf

Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493896

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell Pdf

A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054899

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The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin by Francis O'Gorman Pdf

Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521515047

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The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists by Michael Bell Pdf

A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.

Author : Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139471686

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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Caryl Emerson Pdf

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521850636

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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle by Gail Marshall Pdf

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Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316453575

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The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin by Francis O'Gorman Pdf

John Ruskin (1819–1900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant influence on writers from Tolstoy to Proust, has established his claim as a major writer of English prose. This collection of essays brings together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse his ideas in the context of his life and work. Topics include Ruskin's Europe, architecture, technology, autobiography, art, gender, and his rich influence even in the contemporary world. This is the first multi-authored expert collection to assess the totality of Ruskin's achievement and to open up the deep coherence of a troubled but dazzling mind. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.

Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804757038

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Consequences of Consciousness by Donna Tussing Orwin Pdf

Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness.

Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139486200

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Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin Pdf

A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in these essays speak to readers with astonishing force, relevance, and complexity. In a lively, challenging style, leading scholars range over his long life, from his first work Childhood to the works of his old age like Hadji Murat, and the many genres in which he worked, from the major novels to aphorisms and short stories. The essays present fresh approaches to his central themes: love, death, religious faith and doubt, violence, the animal kingdom, and war. They also assess his reception both in his lifetime and subsequently. Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of more current scholarship on Tolstoy.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828239

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina Pdf

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources - from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and émigré literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova.

Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521483921

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The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel by Graham Bartram Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.