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Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in War and Peace

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Description for Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in War and Peace Paperback. Editor(s): McPeak, Rick; Orwin, Donna Tussing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.

In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy's novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin ... Read more

The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel’s depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.

Contributors: Alan Forrest, University of York; Andreas Herberg-Rothe, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany; Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, Cambridge University; Jeff Love, Clemson University; Alexander M. Martin, University of Notre Dame; Rick McPeak, United States Military Academy at West Point; Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University;Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto; Elizabeth D. Samet, United States Military Academy at West Point; Dan Ungurianu, Vassar College; David A. Welch, Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478178
SKU
V9780801478178
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99-1

About Rick McPeak
Rick McPeak is Professor and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Donna Tussing Orwin is Professor of Russian Literature and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and Tolstoy’s Art and ... Read more

Reviews for Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in War and Peace
Tolstoy on War offers readers the results of an international conference held in April 2010 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.. The audience consisted primarily of cadets who had studied the novel and who had already 'wrestled with [Tolstoi's] take on their deadly, idealistic profession' (2)..In all, the editors have done an excellent job, providing introductory and ... Read more

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