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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism - George Steiner - Paperback

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism - George Steiner - Paperback
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  • ISBN-13: 9780226772264
  • ISBN: 0226772268
  • Edition: 35
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press

AUTHOR

Steiner, George

SUMMARY

George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian master, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a "tragic world view" from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history.Steiner, George is the author of 'Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism - George Steiner - Paperback' with ISBN 9780226772264 and ISBN 0226772268.

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