Tolstoy on war : narrative art and historical truth in "War and peace" /

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In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and port...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McPeak, Rickie Allen (Editor), Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910. > Voĭna i mir.
Tolstoj, Lev Nikolaevič > 1828-1910 > Vojna i mir
Voĭna i mir (Tolstoy, Leo, graf)
History in literature.
War in literature.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
History in literature
War in literature
Krieg > Motiv
Russlandfeldzug > 1812, Motiv
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tolstoy on war, Russia, and empire / Dominic Lieven
  • The use of historical sources in War and peace / Dan Ungurianu
  • Moscow in 1812 : myths and realities / Alexander M. Martin
  • The French at war : representations of the enemy in War and peace / Alan Forrest
  • Symposium of quotations : wit and other short genres in War and peace / Gary Saul Morson
  • The great man in War and peace / Jeff Love
  • War and peace from the military point of view / Donna Tussing Orwin
  • Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the duel as microcosm of war / Rick McPeak
  • The awful poetry of war : Tolstoy's Borodino / Donna Tussing Orwin
  • Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the dialectics of war / Andreas Herberg-Rothe
  • The disobediences of War and peace / Elizabeth D. Samet
  • Tolstoy the international relations theorist / David A. Welch
  • War and peace at West Point / Rick McPeak.

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