| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 149 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 146 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 146
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| Contents |
Chronology: Leo Tolstoy's life and works -- Literary and historical context. 1. Tolstoy's Russia: between east and west. 2. War and peace: the towering novel. 3. Kicking the mountain: the critics' response : a reading. 4. Conception and growth of the novel. 5. The world of perceptions. 6. Perspectives: author, reader, character. 7. Recurrences and linkages. 8. Dynamics and building blocks. 9. Genre and the hero |
| Summary |
In War and Peace: Tolstoy's Mirror of the World, author Rimvydas Silbajoris explores the thesis that Tolstoy's landmark is indeed a statement about life in its totality, as if the earth were a unified organism narrating itself in the uncountable processes of living and dying. This totality, Silbajoris argues, is a model as much of the outside world as of inner human universes, organically fused together by Tolstoy's creative energy. In this incisive study, Silbajoris leaps beyond previous examinations of War and Peace, providing a rich interpretation of landscape, object, action, and feeling. Offering a background sketch of the factors that contributed to its conception, development, and execution, he follows the novel through each of several drafts. This careful and meticulous foundation sets the stage for a truly fertile analysis exploring the three basic narrative dimensions of the work: as a historical novel; as a story of fictional characters living among great figures of history; and as a set of philosophical propositions that elucidate Tolstoy's views on history, free will, and the infinite complexity of emotions as they intersect with the epic forces of life. Viewed through the elaborate lattice of human experience presented in the text, each detail of the novel, Silbajoris shows, contains and reveals the fullness of life - and a sense of the intimate bond between individuals and the vast panorama of history |
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work War and Peace, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author |
| Analysis |
Russian fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Voĭna i mir.
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| SUBJECT |
Tolstoj, Lev N. Vojna i mir. swd |
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Voĭna i mir (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01356995 |
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Oorlog en vrede (Tolstoj)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
95002950 |
| ISBN |
0805719555 |
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9780805719550 |
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