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34 produkter
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2015
317 kr
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Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy’s great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitudeTolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz …
Narrative and Freedom
The Shadows of Time
Häftad, 1996
629 kr
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In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as …
Words of Others
From Quotations to Culture
Inbunden, 2011
1219 kr
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In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of others. Ranging from the remote past to the present, he explores the formation, development, and significance of quotations, while exploring the "verbal …
Wonder Confronts Certainty
Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
Häftad, 2025
223 kr
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An Air Mail Editor’s Pick A Spectator Book of the Year “[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best Russian literature teaches, the emancipation of the human will from all limits and restraints is the path …
Cents and Sensibility
What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Av Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
Inbunden, 2017
380 kr
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A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer …
Cents and Sensibility
What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Av Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
Häftad, 2018
206 kr
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In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam …
Cents and Sensibility
What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Av Morton Schapiro, Gary Saul Morson
E-bok, 2018
278 kr
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In Cents and Sensibility , an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that …
Minds Wide Shut
How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
Av Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
Inbunden, 2021
380 kr
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A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a …
Minds Wide Shut
How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
Av Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
Häftad, 2023
206 kr
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A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a …
Minds Wide Shut
How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
Av Morton Schapiro, Gary Saul Morson
E-bok, 2023
278 kr
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A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight it Polarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a …
Hidden in Plain View
Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace'
Häftad, 1988
449 kr
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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 …
Mikhail Bakhtin
Creation of a Prosaics
Av Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson
Häftad, 1990
477 kr
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Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single …
Writer's Diary
Abridged Edition
Av Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2009
470 kr
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The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 …
Uncensored
Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence
Av Ann Komaromi, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2015
470 kr
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Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among the most acclaimed authors of samizdat, the literature that was self-published in the former Soviet Union in order to evade censorship and prosecution. In Uncensored, Ann Komaromi uses their work to argue for a far more sophisticated …
Nabokov’s Canon
From Onegin to Ada
Av Marijeta Bozovic, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2016
510 kr
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Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered …
Nabokov's Canon
From Onegin to Ada
Av Marijeta Bozovic, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2016
1576 kr
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Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) and its accompanying Commentary, along with Ada, or Ardor (1969), his densely allusive late Englishlanguage novel, have appeared nearly inscrutable to many interpreters of his work. If not outright failures, they are often considered …
Gift of Active Empathy
Scheler, Bakhtin, and Dostoevsky
Av Alina Wyman, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2016
510 kr
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This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin's well-known concept of the …
Gift of Active Empathy
Scheler, Bakhtin, and Dostoevsky
Av Alina Wyman, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2016
1576 kr
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This innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin's well-known concept of the …
Tattered Banners
An Autobiography
Av Paul Rodzianko, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2018
264 kr
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War, like love, is an experience that each generation must learn for itself. Born into Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th Century, Paul Rodzianko led a life rich in love, challenged by war, and inspired by great jumping horses. With humor and infectious joy, he recounts the adventures of …
Prosaics and Other Provocations
Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel
Inbunden, 2013
1364 kr
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This far-ranging study develops Morson’s concept of “prosaics,” which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel’s unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a “prosaics of process” showing how some masterpieces have found an …
Prosaics and Other Provocations
Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel
Häftad, 2018
485 kr
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This far-ranging study develops Morson’s concept of “prosaics,” which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel’s unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a “prosaics of process” showing how some masterpieces have found an …
Plough Quarterly No. 47 – After Religion
UK Edition
Av George Scialabba, Karen Kilby m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
116 kr
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Christianity shaped the West, bringing conquest and religious strife but also the modern ideals of emancipation, human rights, and democracy. Now Christendom’s influence is waning, and many churches are seeing decline in membership. What happens if we lose the Christian teaching that each human …
"Anna Karenina" in Our Time
Seeing More Wisely
Inbunden, 2007
457 kr
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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 …
Rethinking Bakhtin
Extensions and Challenges
Av Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson
Häftad, 1989
272 kr
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Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature
Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson
Av Elizabeth Allen, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 1995
655 kr
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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 …
Voiceless Vanguard
The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
Av Sara P. Weld, Gary Saul Morson
Häftad, 2014
574 kr
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Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children’s art, language, perspective, …
Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
Av Ilya Vinitsky, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2015
1561 kr
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The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)—poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin—this book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky’s “psychological biography” argues that Zhukovsky very …
Uncensored
Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence
Av Ann Komaromi, Gary Saul Morson
Inbunden, 2015
1561 kr
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Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among the most acclaimed authors of samizdat, the literature that was self-published in the former Soviet Union in order to evade censorship and prosecution. In Uncensored, Ann Komaromi uses their work to argue for a far more sophisticated …
