{"product_id":"turgenev-a-reading-of-his-fiction-paperback-9780521114998","title":"Turgenev; A Reading of his Fiction (Paperback) 9780521114998","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTurgenev\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reading of his Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction challenges traditional assumptions of both Eastern and Western critics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank Friedeberg Seeley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521114998, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 25 June 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eUnlike his contemporaries, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) has until recently received less than his fair share of attention from Western scholars. This comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction begins by outlining the writer's life and sketching his personality. It provides a brief survey of his poetry and plays as the prelude to the fiction and reviews some aspects of his literary criticism in their bearing upon it. The main body of the book is devoted to readings of the individual works - A Sportsman's Sketches, the novels and all the stories. Professor Seeley focuses principally on the complexity and subtlety of Turgenev's portrayal of the psychology of his characters - a hitherto neglected aspect of his art. His approach challenges traditional views still current in the critical literature of both the East and the West. The book has been designed to be accessible not only to Slavists, but also to scholars and students of other literatures.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Turgenev and his antinomies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Life and reputation\u003cbr\u003e 2. Poetry, plays, criticism\u003cbr\u003e 3. First stories\u003cbr\u003e 4. Serfs and serf-owners: A Sportsman's Sketches\u003cbr\u003e 5. Transition: the end of serfdom: the 'superfluous man'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Love and the superfluous man\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Hamlet and Don Quixote' - Rudin\u003cbr\u003e 8. The 'Turgenev heroine': A Nest of Gentry\u003cbr\u003e 9. The New Man and the New Woman: On the Eve\u003cbr\u003e 10. The first nihilist: Fathers and Children\u003cbr\u003e 11. The legacy of nihilism: 'Enough', Smoke\u003cbr\u003e 12. 'There are more things in heaven and earth'\u003cbr\u003e 13. The years that are no more\u003cbr\u003e 14. Down memory lane\u003cbr\u003e 15. Seeds of revolution: Virgin Soil\u003cbr\u003e 16. The last writings\u003cbr\u003e 17. Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005258125592,"sku":"9780521114998","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521114998i_7288f0d1-c0a5-43e4-9871-e1ec5ad7b182.jpg?v=1691371358","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/turgenev-a-reading-of-his-fiction-paperback-9780521114998","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}