STRUCTURE, STYLE AND INTERPRETATION IN THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY (First edition - first impression - a near fine copy)

L. Michael O'Toole (Edited and with selective translations by)

ISBN 10: 0300027303 / ISBN 13: 9780300027303

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1982

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A first impression of the true first edition. Edited by L. Michael O'Toole. ***Near fine in light-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, and there is no creasing or bumping to the vulnerable spine and edges of the boards. Corners sharp. Page block edges nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no internal foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine printed dustwrapper, which is unpriced. The dustwrapper is complete, with just the lightest of edge wear. No creases or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***272 pages including a detailed section of Russian Texts, Bibliography and Index at the back of the book. 240mm x 160mm. ***Contents: Preface, 1. Refractions: Interpretation through Strucural analysis, 2. Narrative structure - Leskov: The Man on Sentry Duty, Gogol: The Overcoat, 3. Point of View - Dostoevsky: A Gentle spirit, Tolstoy: Father Sergius, 4. Fable - Korolenko: Maker's Dream, Pushkin: The Post-Stage Master, 5. Plot - Pushkin: The Pistol Shot, Gorky: Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, 6. Character - Turgenev: Asya, Chekhov: The Black Monk, 7. Setting - Turgenev: Bezhin Meadow, Chekhov: The Peasants, 8. Reflections, Russian Texts, Bibliography, Index. ***'This illuminating book co-ordinates and redefines the main categories of narrative structure and tests them as an integrated set of analytical procedures on a specific genre: the nineteenth-century Russian short story. The levels of analysis(narrative structure, point of view, fable, plot, character, and setting), although common to much literary criticism, are re-examined and re-integrated in the light of the theoretical work of the Russian Formalists and critics of the Prague School and some important trends in recent structuralist criticism. The author's close study of style, its relationship with the larger structure of the texts, and its role in the process of interpretation has allowed him frequent and often extensive quotation. He has provided a new and original translation of each passage of Russian text.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the true first edition of this detailed scholarly work, in beautiful near fine collectable condition. An uncommon title. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: STRUCTURE, STYLE AND INTERPRETATION IN THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY (First edition - first impression - a near fine copy)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300027303
• ISBN 13: 9780300027303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • First Editions
  • Literature in Translation

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Synopsis

This illuminating book coordinates and redefines the main categories of narrative structure and tests them as an integrated set of analytical procedures on a specific genre: the nineteenth-century Russian short story. The levels of analysis (narrative structure, point of view, fable, plot, character, and setting), although common to much literary criticism, are re-examined and re-integrated in the light of the theoretical work of the Russian Formalists and critics of the Prague School and some important trends in recent structuralist criticism. Many of the greatest names in nineteenth-century Rusian literature are represented here - Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Korolenko, Chekhov, and Gorky. They are not presented in chronological order, however; O'Toole takes account of influences, echoes, and pastiche, but he tries to break away from the stricture of evolutionary assumptions in which so much of the study of national literatures is confined. He proposes instead that each work creates a unique world of its own and deserves to be explored in its own terms. The author's close study of style, its relationship with the larger structures of the texts, and its role in the process of interpretation has allowed him frequent and often extensive quotation. He has provided a new and original translation of each passage of Russian text. L. Michael O'Toole was professor of communication studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia.