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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky : an essay in the old criticism / George Steiner.
LIBRA - Special PG3410 .S8 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steiner, George, 1929-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolstoy, Leo.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Local Subjects:
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 368 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian master, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a "tragic world view" from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300069170
- 9780300069174
- OCLC:
- 36150455
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