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The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Donna (Ed) Orwin
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Paperback. Key dimensions of Tolstoy's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Editor(s): Orwin, Donna Tussing. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521520003
SKU
V9780521520003
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About Donna (Ed) Orwin
Donna Orwin is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on Russian literature and Tolstoy in particular.
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
'Indispensable for all who teach of study Tolstoy.' Rusistika '… it must be said that these are, without exception, very good essays … For Tolstoi specialists this book, like all good books, provides fertile ground for future research … for the more general reader this collection of clearly written essays, based on recent research, and including some useful websites, will ... Read more