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Before They Were Titans
Elizabeth Allen
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Description for Before They Were Titans
Series: Ars Rossica. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 667.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Ars Rossica
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781618114303
SKU
V9781618114303
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About Elizabeth Allen
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Before They Were Titans
“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 ... Read more