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Edith W. Clowes - Fiction´s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy - 9780801441929 - V9780801441929
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Fiction´s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy

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Description for Fiction´s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.

If Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat,'" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy out from under the "overcoat" of Russian literature. In Fiction's Overcoat, Clowes responds to the view, commonly held by Western European and North American thinkers, that Russian culture has no philosophical tradition. If that is true, she asks, why do readers everywhere turn to the classics of Russian literature, at least in part because Russian writers so famously engage universal questions, because they are so "philosophical"? Her answer to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441929
SKU
V9780801441929
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Edith W. Clowes
Edith W. Clowes is the Brown-Forman Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Virginia. Her books include Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity, also from Cornell, Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion, The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche and Russian Literature, and Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after ... Read more

Reviews for Fiction´s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy
Edith Clowe's fine book is an impassioned argument for the distinctiveness and legitimacy of Russian philosophy in relation to its western counterpart.... The immense virtue of Clowe's book is to emphasize the formal richness and radically of Russian philosophy as an innovatively impure discourse unto itself, thereby preparing the necessary basis to pose this very contemporary question of authority anew ... Read more

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