Gary Saul Morson
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY
Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Author of Anna Karenina in Our Time, Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in "War and Peace," and others.
Primary Contributions (3)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest…
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Publications (4)
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
This Book Explores The Family Of Very Short Literary Genres-- Aphorisms, Witticisms, Wise Sayings, And Other Short Forms, From The Perspective Of Their World Views And The Devices That Express Them.
Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in ‘War and Peace’
“Perhaps the single most intelligent reading of War and Peace we have in English.” —William Mills Todd III, Stanford University
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel (Ars Rossica)
Gary Saul Morson?s Ideas About Life And Literature Have Long Inspired, Annoyed, And Provoked Specialists And General Readers. His Work On ?prosaics? (his Coinage) Argues That Life?s Defining Events Are Not Grand But Ordinary, And That The World?s Fundamental State Is Mess. Viewing Time As A ?field Of Possibilities,? He Maintains That Contingency And Freedom Are Real. To Represent Open Time, Some Masterpieces Have Developed An Alternative To Structure And Require A ?prosaics Of Process.? Morson?s...
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Anna Karenina in our time
In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina, Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy’s characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy’s ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his masterpiece challenges deeply held conceptions of romantic love, the process of social reform, modernization, and the nature of good and evil. By investigating the ethical, philosophical, and social issues...
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