Worlds Within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev

by Jane Tussey Costlow

Book Overview

The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like the simplest painting of daily artifacts, his works have pleased partly because they shape a recognizable world and partly because their form gives to the content its resonant signifying power. Here Jane Costlow accounts for both the historicity and aesthetic elegance of Turgenev's realist novels in close readings of Rudin, A...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603723
• ISBN13: 9780691603728
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"