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Influence of Tolstoy on Readers of His Works
| Author: | Williams, Gareth | |
| Year: | 1990 | |
| Pages: | 450 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-274-7 978-0-88946-274-8 | |
| Price: | $259.95 | |
Examines the methods employed by Tolstoy to influence the reader, including the relationship he establishes with the reader and the way he uses images to help the reader join the world of the characters.
Reviews
". . . a percipient and illuminating analysis of Tolstoy's methods for making the reader a rapt receptor of his own vision. . . . [Williams] introduces some penetrating insights of his own such as the pervasive thermo-dynamic metaphor in Anna Karenina. Again and again in the course of reading this study . . . I was made to 'feel clever'. That is the mark of effective criticism." - Scottish Slavonic Review
"The stories of the later 1850s are discussed in detail. . . A particularly interesting chapter shows how the opening sections of War and Peace throw the reader into a completely unexplained environment, deliberately challenging him to find his own orientation in the welter of experience." -- Oxford Journals' Forum for Modern Language Studies, Spring 1996
"The author justly claims to be breaking new ground. . . shows much evidence of wide reading and original thought, and he is not afraid to cross swords with other critics. . . as a perceptive and original study by a sympathetic and scholarly admirer of Tolstoi's fiction the book will repay careful reading..." - MLR, 88.1, 1993
"The stories of the later 1850s are discussed in detail. . . A particularly interesting chapter shows how the opening sections of War and Peace throw the reader into a completely unexplained environment, deliberately challenging him to find his own orientation in the welter of experience." -- Oxford Journals' Forum for Modern Language Studies, Spring 1996
"The author justly claims to be breaking new ground. . . shows much evidence of wide reading and original thought, and he is not afraid to cross swords with other critics. . . as a perceptive and original study by a sympathetic and scholarly admirer of Tolstoi's fiction the book will repay careful reading..." - MLR, 88.1, 1993
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The Early Drafts of the Autoiographical Triology
Chapter 2 Childhood
Chapter 3 The Dialectic of the Soul
Chapter 4 Moral Progress and the Question of Unity
Chapter 5 Investigation through Invention
Chapter 6 Didacticism and Satire
Chapter 7 Problems
Chapter 8 Lines of Communication
Chapter 9 War and Peace: The First Impressions
Chapter 10 War and Peace: The 'Wonderful Sagacity' of the Reader
Chapter 11 Tolstoy's Reader at the Time of War and Peace
Chapter 12 A Prisoner of the Caucasus
Chapter 13 Anna Karenina: The Conservation of Force
Chapter 14 Anna Karenina: The Power of the Will
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1 The Early Drafts of the Autoiographical Triology
Chapter 2 Childhood
Chapter 3 The Dialectic of the Soul
Chapter 4 Moral Progress and the Question of Unity
Chapter 5 Investigation through Invention
Chapter 6 Didacticism and Satire
Chapter 7 Problems
Chapter 8 Lines of Communication
Chapter 9 War and Peace: The First Impressions
Chapter 10 War and Peace: The 'Wonderful Sagacity' of the Reader
Chapter 11 Tolstoy's Reader at the Time of War and Peace
Chapter 12 A Prisoner of the Caucasus
Chapter 13 Anna Karenina: The Conservation of Force
Chapter 14 Anna Karenina: The Power of the Will
Afterword
Bibliography
Index