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Subject(s)

• Tolstoy, Leo graf 1828-1910—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Tolstoy, Leo graf 1828-1910—Characters [Browse]
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881—Characters [Browse]
• Characters and characteristics in literature [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Russian literature and theory [More in this series]
• Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory

Summary note

"What makes characters seem real? This book explores the ways Tolstoy and Dostoevsky created the illusion of autonomous characters, through techniques that paradoxically hindered the writers' ambitions for the novel as a genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Dinner at the English Club: Character on the Margins in War and Peace
• "A Novel Needs a Hero . . .": Dostoevsky's Realist Character-Systems
• "A Living Matter": The Doubled Character-System of Anna Karenina
• The Eccentric and the Contemplator: Family Character in The Brothers Karamazov
• Afterword.

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ISBN

• 9780810143968 (paperback)
• 0810143968 (paperback)
• 9780810143975 (hardcover)
• 0810143976 (hardcover)

LCCN

2021018397

OCLC

1228007612

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