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Leo Tolstoy / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's modern critical views
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 254 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- Considered one of the greatest novelists of all time, Tolstoy dominated the 19th-century literary scene with his epics War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Harold Bloom was awarded the 1999 Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Contents:
- The dialectic of incarnation : Tolstoi's Anna Karenina / R.P. Blackmur
- Tolstoy and enlightenment / Isaiah Berlin
- Anna Karenina and What is art? / John Bayley
- Authority and its discontents in Tolstoy and Joyce / Anna A. Tavis
- A painted lady : the poetics of ekphrasis / Amy Mandelker
- Tolstoy and Dostoevsky : seductions of the old criticism / Caryl Emerson
- A man speaking to men : the narratives of War and peace / W. Gareth Jones
- Water, movement, roundness : epiphanies and history in Tolstoy's War and peace / Martin Bidney
- Legitimation and irony in Tolstoy and Fontane / Felicia Gordon
- Death or immortality? : Dostoevsky versus Tolstoy / A. Galkin
- Anna Karenina's Peter Pan syndrome / Vladimir Golstein
- Pushkin, Tolstoy, and the possibility of an ethics of history / Caryl Emerson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791074447
- OCLC:
- 51251823
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