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1	Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876 more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz (Translator), Gary Saul Morson (Introduction by) The Diary is Dostoevsky's attempt to create a new genre maximally open to present experience and unforeseen historical change--to capitalize on the excitement of an author's creative process, which would itself become material for art, and to demonstrate how an artist reflects on experience as it happens. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $26.12! \| SVS
2	Boundaries of Genre more books like this by Gary Saul Morson see all copies from $2.56! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
3	Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies more books like this by Gary Saul Morson see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions
4	Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely more books like this by Gary Saul Morson (Editor) In this invigorating new assessment of "Anna Karenina", Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy's characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy's ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of ... see all copies from $25.06! new only from $25.06! \| SVS
5	Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics more books like this by Gary Saul Morson see all copies from $13.17! new only from $23.71! \| SVS
6	Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges more books like this by Gary Saul Morson see all copies from $7.00! new only from $25.25! \| first editions
7	Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time more books like this by Gary Saul Morson Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, television, and much more, Gary Saul Morson examines the relation of time to narrative form ... see all copies from $5.35! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace' more books like this by Gary Morson For decades, the formal peculiarities of "War and Peace" disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and the literary power of the book to Tolstoy's "primitive," unruly genius. Using that critical history as a starting point, this volume recaptures the overwhelming sense of strangeness felt by the work's ... see all copies from $26.41! new only from $28.51! \| first editions
9	Dostoevsky's Occasional Writings more books like this by David Magarshack (Translator), Gary Saul Morson (Foreword by), Fyodor M Dostoevsky A collection of articles, sketches, and letters spanning 33 years in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing career, from 1847, just after the successful publication of his first novel, until 1880, a year before his death. This volume allows the reader to measure the broad scope of his artistic development and the changes that occurred as a result of such ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
10	The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech more books like this by Stewart Justman, Gary Saul Morson (Editor) This text takes up questions of literary history and theory even as it explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and the journalism that conveys them to the public. These forces of opinion are traced to a tradition deeper and older than either - satire. In that tradition - its power, diversity, and license - the author ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
11	Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work more books like this by Gary S Morson (Editor) see all copies from $4.39! new only from $35.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol more books like this by Ilya Kutik, Il'ia Kutik, Professor Gary Saul Morson (Introduction by) This interpretive essay brings a poetic sensibility to bear on the lives and works of three major Russian writers. It is Ilya Kutik's contention that many writers are tormented by secret fears and desires that only writing - in particular, the use of certain words and images - can exorcise. Making this biographical approach peculiarly his own - ... see all copies from $44.00! new only from $62.95! \| first editions
13	Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics more books like this by Valerie Z Nollan (Editor), Professor Gary Saul Morson (Editor) The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin's later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas, whether in the philosophical concerns of the ... see all copies from $21.84! new only from $27.54! \| SVS
14 view cover	Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson more books like this by Gary S Morson (Editor), Elizabeth C Allen (Editor) Robert Louis Jackson, (the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University), is one of the most prominent American Slavists in the field today. His innovative scholarship and teaching have informed the development of this discipline and affected every one of its practitioners. Elizabeth Cheresh Allen and Gary Saul ... see all copies from $31.00! new only from $47.25!
15	A Writer's Diary Volume 1 Op: 1873-1876 more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz (Translator), Gary Saul Morson (Introduction by) This collection of Dostoevsky's writings on the art and craft of writing is full of his innovative ideas about fiction and its uses. Begun as a monthly miscellany, the journal was published in 1876-77, and served as a place where he could try out his ideas for THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. He also commented on politics, literary events, fiction in ... see all copies from $35.00!
16 view cover	Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937 more books like this by Angela Brintlinger In the period between the Revolution and the purges of the 1930s, Russian literary culture underwent a profound split, divided between the emigre community and citizens of the new Soviet Union. Each faction sought to legitimize its claim to the nation's patrimony and hegemony. In the USSR this partly gave rise to socialist realism, yet many ... see all copies from $33.90! new only from $33.90! \| SVS
17	The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia more books like this by Gary S Morson see all copies from $9.95! new only from $15.00! \| first editions

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