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Academic Studies Press Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (Ars Rossica)

Name: Before They Were Titans: Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (Ars Rossica)
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Product Description 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. Contributors: Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Bryn Mawr College), Lewis Bagby (University of Wyoming), Caryl Emerson (Princeton University), Susanne Fusso (Wesleyan University), Liza Knapp (Columbia University), Anne Lounsbery (New York University), Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University), Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University), Dale E. Peterson (Amherst College), William Mills Todd III (Harvard University), Ilya Vinitsky (University of Pennsylvania), Justin Weir (Harvard University) Review “This collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars, themselves "titans," in the field of Slavic literary studies brings to bear their extensive knowledge and profound insight on the nascent genius of the young Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. The collection is bookended by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen's introductory essay and by Caryl Emerson's Afterword "On the Wondrous Thickness of First Things." These orient and lend coherence to a collection that is in fact very diverse in form and "thickness": while some of the pieces are akin to pensees, others are full-fledged scholarly articles with significant research behind them. In short, no standard measure can be applied; each essay is unique in its aims, scope, and approach.” -- Lynn Ellen Patyk (Dartmouth College) The Russian Review (January 2016, Vol. 75, No. 1) About the Author Elizabeth Cheresh Allen received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1984, where she taught for seven years. Since 1991, Allen has taught at Bryn Mawr College as Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev’s Poetics of Secular Salvation (Stanford UP, 1992) and A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Stanford UP, 2007). She is also the editor of The Essential Turgenev (Northwestern UP, 1994) and co-editor of Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson (Northwestern UP, 1995).

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Brand: Academic Studies Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1618114301
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Novelists, Poets & Playwrights
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 April 2015
Listed Since: 12 June 2014

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