New Essays on Tolstoy
Title | New Essays on Tolstoy PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2011-03-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521169219 |
This collection of essays focuses on Tolstoy's writing, thinking and translation problems to commemorate his 150th year of his birth.
Saviour Or Superman?
Title | Saviour Or Superman? PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Friedeberg Seeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
New Essays on Dostoyevsky
Title | New Essays on Dostoyevsky PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm V. Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1983-03-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521248906 |
This book comprises essays to mark the centenary of Dostoyevsky's death in 1881. The first part considers specific works and the second part ranges more widely over aspects of the great novelist's work, including essays on Dostoyevsky as philosopher, on his religious thought and on formalist and structuralist approaches to his work.
War and Peace
Title | War and Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Brett Cooke |
Publisher | Salem PressInc |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Realism in literature |
ISBN | 9781619253933 |
Tolstoy's epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. This volume examines Tolstoy's unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the text, including historical fiction, war drama, romance and realism.
Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy
Title | Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Tussing Orwin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2010-02-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521514910 |
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 new essays speak to today's 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 new 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 current scholarship on Tolstoy.
Before They Were Titans
Title | Before They Were Titans PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cheresh Allen |
Publisher | Academic Studies PRess |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2019-08-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1618119230 |
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Title | Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li PDF eBook |
Author | Yiyun Li |
Publisher | Public Space Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781734590760 |
A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress.