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Author: Liza Knapp (Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 11.30cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 17.50cm
Weight: 0.132kg
ISBN: 9780198813934
ISBN 10: 0198813937
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 24 May 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
... excellent short biograph[y]. * Donna Tussing Orwin, Slavonic and East European Review * Knapp has succeeded in writing a worthwhile introduction to Tolstoy, perfectly suited to the classroom or, for that matter, anyone with some curiosity and two hours of quiet. Even Tolstoy scholars will appreciate her insights and, more importantly, her ability to connect seemingly divergent aspects of this notoriously unstable genius. * Martin Denver, Russian Review * A superb short work. * Paradigm Explorer * Liza Knapp has given us the ideal introduction to Tolstoy a marvellous synthesis and critique that takes his ideas and philosophy as seriously as his novels. Brilliantly written and useful. * Jay Parini, author of The Last Station * Dazzling. Compelling. Moving! Knapp brilliantly illuminates the inseparability of Tolstoys art and thought and how a cherished childhood game inspired both. * Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University *
Dazzling. Compelling. Moving! Knapp brilliantly illuminates the inseparability of Tolstoys art and thought and how a cherished childhood game inspired both. * Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University * Liza Knapp has given us the ideal introduction to Tolstoy a marvellous synthesis and critique that takes his ideas and philosophy as seriously as his novels. Brilliantly written and useful. * Jay Parini, author of The Last Station * A superb short work. * Paradigm Explorer *
Dazzling. Compelling. Moving! Knapp brilliantly illuminates the inseparability of Tolstoys art and thought and how a cherished childhood game inspired both. * Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University * Liza Knapp has given us the ideal introduction to Tolstoy a marvellous synthesis and critique that takes his ideas and philosophy as seriously as his novels. Brilliantly written and useful. * Jay Parini, author of The Last Station *
Author Information
Liza Knapp is a Professor of Slavic Languages at Columbia University; before coming to Columbia in 2004, she taught for a decade in the Slavic Department at the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches and writes widesly on the subjects of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and is the author of Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Plots (2016), and The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics (1996). Knapp is also the co-editor of the MLA Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina (2003), and the editor of Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical Companion (1998).
