Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Autor Chloë Kitzingeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2021
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic illusion that Chloë Kitzinger calls mimetic life—the reader’s sense of a character’s autonomous, embodied existence. At the same time, both authors tested the practical limits of that illusion by extending it toward the novel’s formal and generic bounds: philosophy, history, journalism, theology, myth.
Through new readings of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, and other novels, Kitzinger traces a productive tension between mimetic characterization and the author’s ambition to transform the reader. She shows how Tolstoy and Dostoevsky create lifelike characters and why the dream of carrying the illusion of “life” beyond the novel consistently fails. Mimetic Lives challenges the contemporary truism that novels educate us by providing enduring models for the perspectives of others, with whom we can then better empathize. Seen close, the realist novel’s power to create a world of compelling fictional persons underscores its resources as a form for thought and its limits as a direct source of spiritual, social, or political change.
Drawing on scholarship in Russian literary studies as well as the theory of the novel, Kitzinger’s lucid work of criticism will intrigue and challenge scholars working in both fields.
Through new readings of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, and other novels, Kitzinger traces a productive tension between mimetic characterization and the author’s ambition to transform the reader. She shows how Tolstoy and Dostoevsky create lifelike characters and why the dream of carrying the illusion of “life” beyond the novel consistently fails. Mimetic Lives challenges the contemporary truism that novels educate us by providing enduring models for the perspectives of others, with whom we can then better empathize. Seen close, the realist novel’s power to create a world of compelling fictional persons underscores its resources as a form for thought and its limits as a direct source of spiritual, social, or political change.
Drawing on scholarship in Russian literary studies as well as the theory of the novel, Kitzinger’s lucid work of criticism will intrigue and challenge scholars working in both fields.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810143975
ISBN-10: 0810143976
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 Table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
ISBN-10: 0810143976
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 Table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Notă biografică
CHLOË KITZINGER is an assistant professor of Russian at Rutgers University.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dinner at the English Club: Character on the Margins in War and Peace
2. “A novel needs a hero...”: Dostoevsky’s Realist Character-Systems
Introduction
1. Dinner at the English Club: Character on the Margins in War and Peace
2. “A novel needs a hero...”: Dostoevsky’s Realist Character-Systems
3. "A Living Matter": The Doubled Character-System of Anna Karenina
4. The Eccentric and the Contemplator: Family Character in The Brothers Karamazov
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
4. The Eccentric and the Contemplator: Family Character in The Brothers Karamazov
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
What makes characters seem real? This book explores the ways Tolstoy and Dostoevsky created the illusion of autonomous characters, through techniques that paradoxically hindered the writers’ ambitions for the novel as a genre.