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Symbolism, Imagery And Color In The Works Of Isaac Babel, Myra Alloway Salisbury
Symbolism, Imagery And Color In The Works Of Isaac Babel, Myra Alloway Salisbury
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English, Foreign Language and Philosophy at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Myra Alloway Salisbury in June of 1990.
Tolstoy And Clio: An Exploration In Historiography Through Literature, David Wiles
Tolstoy And Clio: An Exploration In Historiography Through Literature, David Wiles
Research outputs pre 2011
This paper explores issues in historiography and history as reflected in some of the literary and didactic works of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). An artist of eternal merit, Tolstoy's creativity manifests his intense personal, artistic, and philosophical conflicts. In addressing the 'accursed questions' afflicting his times and society, Tolstoy became the muse of nineteenth-century Russia, but his works embody essential themes in historiography, literature, and history. Attempting to impose a unitary vision upon the rich diversity of reality, yet failing, in his literary works Tolstoy explores the inaccessibility and multiplicity of historical causation, and the dilemmas of freedom and necessity, along …