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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| Superior document: | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Northwestern University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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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.