Elizabeth Cheresh Allen 
Before They Were Titans [PDF ebook] 
Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

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Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century, Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.

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Elizabeth Cheresh Allen received her Ph D in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1984, where she taught for seven years. Since 1991, Allen has taught at Bryn Mawr College as Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Beyond Realism: Turgenev’s Poetics of Secular Salvation (Stanford UP, 1992) and A Fallen Idol is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Stanford UP, 2007). She is also the editor of The Essential Turgenev (Northwestern UP, 1994) and co-editor of Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson (Northwestern UP, 1995).

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9781618114310 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Editor Elizabeth Cheresh Allen ● Publisher Academic Studies Press ● City MA ● Country US ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5959697 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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