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Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880 (LITERARY CRITICISM, AESTHETICS, LITERARY BIOGRPAHY)
by Orwin, Donna Tussing
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- 0691069913
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- 9780691069913
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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr. New. 1993. Hardcover. 0691069913 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 269 pages -- Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. DJ has very light dust smudges, mostly on back flap; upper corners of front and back boards bumped; else pristine. From a review by Caryl Emerson of Princeton University: " 'My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself,' writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote 'The Cossacks', 'War and Peace', and 'Anna Karenina'. Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral certainty unfolded, creating fundamental differences among the great novels of the 'pre-crisis' period. Distinguished by its historical emphasis, this book demonstrates that the great novelist, who had once seen a fundamental harmony between human conscience and nature's vitality, began eventually to believe in a dangerous rift between the two: during the years discussed here, Tolstoy moved gradually from a celebration of life to instruction about its moral dimensions. Paying special attention to Tolstoy's reading of Rousseau, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and the Russian thinker N. N. Strakhov, Orwin also explores numerous other influences on his thought. In so doing, she shows how his philosophical and emotional conflicts changed form but continued unabated--until, with his religious conversion of 1880, he surrendered his long attempt to make sense of life through art alone." -- with a bonus offer--; .
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- Title
- Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880 (LITERARY CRITICISM, AESTHETICS, LITERARY BIOGRPAHY)
- Author
- Orwin, Donna Tussing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- ISBN 10
- 0691069913
- ISBN 13
- 9780691069913
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- Princeton Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0691069913, Orwin, Donna Tussing Tolstoy's Art And Thought, 1847-1880 (literary Criticism, AESTHETICS, Philosophy) Tolstoy Leo Graf 1828 1910, Collectible
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