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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



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*Chapter One. RHETORIC AND SINCERITY: TURGENEV AND THE POETICS OF SILENCE, pg. 11*Chapter Two. GOSSIP, SILENCE, STORY: LANGUAGE IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 30*Chapter Three. HISTORY AND IDYLL IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 55*Chapter Four. ON THE EVE AND THE SIRENS OF STASIS, pg. 82*Chapter Five. ODINTSEVA'S BATH AND BAZAROV'S DOGS: THE DISMANTLING OF CULTURE IN FATHERS AND CHILDREN, pg. 105*CONCLUSION, pg. 138*NOTES, pg. 143*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 159*INDEX, pg. 163

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 7/14/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691603728, 978-0691603728
      ISBN10: 0691603723

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*Chapter One. RHETORIC AND SINCERITY: TURGENEV AND THE POETICS OF SILENCE, pg. 11*Chapter Two. GOSSIP, SILENCE, STORY: LANGUAGE IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 30*Chapter Three. HISTORY AND IDYLL IN A NEST OF GENTRY, pg. 55*Chapter Four. ON THE EVE AND THE SIRENS OF STASIS, pg. 82*Chapter Five. ODINTSEVA'S BATH AND BAZAROV'S DOGS: THE DISMANTLING OF CULTURE IN FATHERS AND CHILDREN, pg. 105*CONCLUSION, pg. 138*NOTES, pg. 143*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 159*INDEX, pg. 163

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