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The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia

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By Gary Saul Morson

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9780292707320, titled "The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia" | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Literary Criticism âº Russian & Former Soviet Union

Paperback:

9780810108110 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Morson, Gary Saul

Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work

By Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780226541327 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9780226541334 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $19.50

Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies

By Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780804713023 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $62.95

Paperback:

9780804714709 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 1986, cover price $17.95

Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace

Product Description: For decades, the formal peculiarities of War and Peace disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and the literary power of the book to Tolstoy's "primitive," unruly genius. Using that critical history as a starting point, this volume recaptures the overwhelming sense of strangeness felt by the work's first readers and thereby illuminates Tolstoy's theoretical and narratological concerns...read more

By Gary Saul Morson

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9780804713870 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For decades, the formal peculiarities of War and Peace disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and the literary power of the book to Tolstoy's "primitive," unruly genius.

Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges

The essays in Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges extend Bakhtin's concepts in important new directions and challenge Bakhtin's own use of his most cherished ideas. Four sets of paired essays explore the theory of parody, the relation of de Man's poetics to Bakhtin's dialogics, Bakhtin's approach to Tolstoy and ideological literature generally, and the dangers of dialogue, not only in practice but also as an ideal.

By Caryl Emerson (editor) and Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9780810108097 | Northwestern Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The essays in Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges extend Bakhtin's concepts in important new directions and challenge Bakhtin's own use of his most cherished ideas.

Paperback:

9780810108103 | Northwestern Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $24.00

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics

Product Description: Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern...read more

By Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson

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9780804718219 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess.

Paperback:

9780804718226 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $32.95

Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9780300058826 | Yale Univ Pr, October 26, 1994, cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9780300068757 | Reissue edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 10, 1996), cover price $34.00

Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert Louis Jackson

By Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Robert Louis Jackson (editor) and Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780810111462 | Northwestern Univ Pr, March 15, 1995, cover price $49.95

Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence

By Gary Saul Morson (introduced by) and Roger C. Schank

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9780810113138 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $27.95

Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing

Presents essays of five important German authors of the last century--Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, Paul Celan, and Walter Benjamin--and provides critical analysis of their work. (view table of contents)

By Michael Andre Bernstein and Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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9780810117747 | Northwestern Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Presents essays of five important German authors of the last century--Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Martin Heidegger, Paul Celan, and Walter Benjamin--and provides critical analysis of their work.

Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith

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By F. J. Contijock (editor), Paul J. Contino (editor), Susan M. Felch (editor) and Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780810118249 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $79.95

Paperback:

9780810118256 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.95

Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9780300100709 | Yale Univ Pr, December 5, 2007, cover price $40.00

The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9780300167474 | Yale Univ Pr, March 14, 2011, cover price $75.00

The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel

Product Description: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary worksâwise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questionsâGary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers...read more

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9780804780513 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 4, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more.

Paperback:

9780804781695 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 4, 2012, cover price $24.95

Prosaics and Russian Literature: Moral Mastery

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9781618111760 | Isd, July 15, 2015, cover price $99.00

Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel

Product Description: This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of ""prosaics,"" which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a ""prosaics of process"" showing how some masterpieces have found an alternative to structure...read more

By Gary Saul Morson

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Hardcover:

9781618111616 | Isd, August 15, 2013, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of ""prosaics,"" which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them.

Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde

By Sara Pankenier Weld

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Hardcover:

9780810129849 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 28, 2014, cover price $45.00

Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture

By Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Paperback:

9780810134355 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, October 31, 2014), cover price $34.95

The Fabulous Future?: America and the World in 2040

Product Description: Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a techno-logically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? "The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 "draws its inspi-ration from a more optimistic time, and tome, "The Fabulous Fu-ture: America in 1980," in which "Fortune "magazine celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary by publishing the predictions of thought leaders of its time...read more

By Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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9780810131965 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 5, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives?

9780415031738, titled "The Economic Section 1939-1961: A Study in Economic Advising" | Routledge Kegan & Paul, September 1, 1989, cover price $77.00 | also contains The Economic Section 1939-1961: A Study in Economic Advising | About this edition: The Economic Section was the first group of professional economists to operate at the centre of the British government.

9780415031462, titled "Equality in Liberty and Justice" | Routledge, July 1, 1989, cover price $57.00 | also contains Equality in Liberty and Justice

Paperback:

9780810131989 | Northwestern Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives?

Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia

Product Description: The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783â1852)âpoet, translaÂtor of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinâthis book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history...read more

By Ilya Vinitsky

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Hardcover:

9780810130982 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 31, 2015, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783â1852)âpoet, translaÂtor of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinâthis book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history.

Paperback:

9780810131859 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 31, 2015, cover price $39.95

Anna Karenina

Matrices are used in many fields such as statistics, econometrics, mathematics, natural sciences and engineering. They provide a concise, simple method for describing long and complicated computations. This is a comprehensive handbook and dictionary of terms for matrix theory.

By Gary Saul Morson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780300203943 | Yale Univ Pr, November 25, 2014, cover price $35.00

9780471966883, titled "Handbook of Matrices" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 1996, cover price $159.95 | also contains Handbook of Matrices | About this edition: Matrices are used in many fields such as statistics, econometrics, mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.

Paperback:

9780300216820 | Yale Univ Pr, July 14, 2015, cover price $20.00

Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence

By Ann Komaromi

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Hardcover:

9780810131231 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $120.00

Paperback:

9780810131866 | Northwestern Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $39.95

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