The Influence of Tolstoy on Readers of His Works
Williams, Gareth

Description

Examines the methods employed by Tolstoy to influence the reader, including the relationship he establishes with the reader and the way he uses images to help the reader join the world of the characters.

Reviews

". . . a percipient and illuminating analysis of Tolstoy's methods for making the reader a rapt receptor of his own vision. . . . [Williams] introduces some penetrating insights of his own such as the pervasive thermo-dynamic metaphor in Anna Karenina. Again and again in the course of reading this study . . . I was made to 'feel clever'. That is the mark of effective criticism." - Scottish Slavonic Review

"The stories of the later 1850s are discussed in detail. . . A particularly interesting chapter shows how the opening sections of War and Peace throw the reader into a completely unexplained environment, deliberately challenging him to find his own orientation in the welter of experience." -- Oxford Journals' Forum for Modern Language Studies, Spring 1996

"The author justly claims to be breaking new ground. . . shows much evidence of wide reading and original thought, and he is not afraid to cross swords with other critics. . . as a perceptive and original study by a sympathetic and scholarly admirer of Tolstoi's fiction the book will repay careful reading..." - MLR, 88.1, 1993

ISBN10:  0-88946-274-7   ISBN13:  978-0-88946-274-8    Pages:  450    Year:  1990   

Series: Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature Number: 4

Subject Area: Literature- Russian & Slavic 

Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press

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