"I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house," wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. Increating this list, and many others that appear in his writings, Thoreau was working within a little-recognized yet ancient literary tradition: the practice of listing or cataloguing. This beautifully written book is the first to examine literary lists and the remarkably wide range of ways writers use them. Robert Belknap first examines lists through the...
"I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the fir...
Robert L. Belknap is the author of "The Structure of "The Brothers Karamazov," "which is generally regarded as one of the best studies on Dostoevsky produced by the present generation of scholars. "The Genesis of "The Brothers Karamazov"" continues and complements Belknap's earlier work, tracing Dostoevsky's last, great novel to its sources and exploring the works Dostoevsky read and consciously employed in constructing it.
Robert L. Belknap is the author of "The Structure of "The Brothers Karamazov," "which is generally regarded as one of the best studies on Dostoevsky p...
