The overcoming of history in "War and peace" / / Jeff Love.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 42
• VerfasserIn: Love, Jeff,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace" marks a radical departure from the critical tradition dominated by Sir Isaiah Berlin's view that the novel is deeply divided against itself, a majestically flawed contest of brilliant art and clumsy thought. To the contrary, Jeff Love argue...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Narrative and Striving
• 2. Purpose and Outline of this Book
• 3. The Critical Tradition
• Chapter One: Skepticism
• 1. Skepticism in the Fictional Text
• 2. Skepticism in the Historical Essays
• Chapter Two: The Calculus of History
• 1. Borodino
• 2. The Calculus of History
• 3. Calculus in the Novel
• Chapter Three: A Temporality of Contradiction
• 1. Temporality in the Novel
• 2. Epic and Novelistic Temporality
• 3. The End of Time
• Chapter Four: The Fundamental Structure
• 1. The Problem of History
• 2. Freedom
• 3. The Relation of Reason and Consciousness
• 4. The Problem of History Revisited
• Chapter Five: Mastery and Reticence
• 1. Napoleon and Mastery
• 2. The Tragic Path
• 3. The Comic Path
• Conclusion: Freedom and Silence
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index.