Mimetic Lives : Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel /

"What makes characters seem real? This book explores the ways Tolstoy and Dostoevsky created the illusion of autonomous characters, through techniques that paradoxically hindered the writers' ambitions for the novel as a genre"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kitzinger, Chloë (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881 > Characters.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881 > Criticism and interpretation.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Characters.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dinner at the English Club: Character on the Margins in War and Peace
  • "A Novel Needs a Hero . . .": Dostoevsky's Realist Character-Systems
  • "A Living Matter": The Doubled Character-System of Anna Karenina
  • The Eccentric and the Contemplator: Family Character in The Brothers Karamazov
  • Afterword.

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