The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Tussing Orwin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2002-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521520003 |
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.
Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
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Release | 2002 |
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ISBN | 9785215200025 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm V. Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1998-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521479097 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Leatherbarrow |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2002-07-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521654739 |
Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Contributors examines topics such as Dostoevskii's relation to folk literature, money, religion, the family and science. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.
The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin
Title | The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin PDF eBook |
Author | Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107054893 |
Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Flower |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 545 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107050065 |
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 475 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107493897 |
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.