Mimetic Lives Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives explores this unprecedented question on the rich ground of Tolstoy's and Dostoevsky's fiction. Each author discovered techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion Kitzinger calls mimetic life: the reader's sense of a charact...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720364206719 |
Table of 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.
