Book: Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky: An Essay In The Old Criticism, Second Edition George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian master, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a "tragic world view" from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history.
Details of Book: Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky: An Essay In The Old Criticism, Second Edition Book: Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky: An Essay In The Old Criticism, Second Edition
Author: George Steiner, George Steiner
ISBN: 0300069170
ISBN-13: 9780300069174
, 978-0300069174
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Number of Pages: 384
Language: English