Mimetic Lives : : Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel / / Chloë Kitzinger.
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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Kitzinger, Chloë author. Mimetic Lives : Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel / Chloë Kitzinger. [s.l.] : Northwestern University Press, 2021. 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Description based on print version record. CC BY-NC-ND 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 character's embodied existence. Both authors tested the limits of that illusion by pushing it toward the novel's formal and generic bounds. Through new readings of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, and other novels, Kitzinger traces the productive tension between these impulses. She shows how these lifelike characters are made, and why the authors' dreams of carrying the illusion of life beyond the novel fail. Kitzinger challenges the contemporary truism that novels educate by providing models for the perspectives of others. The realist novel's power to create compelling fictional persons underscores its resources as a form for thought, and its limits as a source of change. 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. Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union bisacsh Literature History and criticism Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Criticism and interpretation. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Characters. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Criticism and interpretation. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Characters. 0-8101-4396-8 0-8101-4398-4 |
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