Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this volume of a two-part study includes the work of 15 eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception, and suggestions for new ways of reading.
Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this volume of a two-part study includes the work of 15 ...
Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love--one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Upon it's publication, Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and happiness weighed against the rigid demands of society. Its heroine, the sensual, rebellious Anna, renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for an extramarital affair that offers a taste of passion even as it ensnares her in a trap for destruction. Her story contrasts with that of Levin, a young, self-doubting agnostic who takes a different path to...
Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love--one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves self-consciously through Western European eyes, at once admiring Europe and feeling inferior to it. This ambivalence was perhaps most keenly felt in relation to France, whose language and culture had shaped the world of the Russian aristocracy from the time of Catherine the Great. In How the Russians Read the French, Priscilla Meyer shows how Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy engaged with French literature and culture to define their own...
Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves self-consciously thro...
Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading.
Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes th...
