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Hidden in Plain View - Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace' (Paperback, New Ed)
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Hidden in Plain View - Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace' (Paperback, New Ed)
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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. The
author demonstrates that the formal peculiarities of War and Peace
were deliberate, designed to elude what Tolstoy regarded as the
falsifying constraints of all narratives, both novelistic and
historical. Developing and challenging the ideas of Mikhail
Bakhtin, Morson explores Tolstoy's account of the work's
composition in light of various myths of the creative process. He
proposes a theory of "creation by potential" that incorporates
Tolstoy's main concerns: the "openness" of each historical moment;
the role of chance in history and within narrative patterns; and
the efficacy of ordinary events, "hidden in plain view," in shaping
history and individual psychology. In his reading of Tolstoy, he
demonstrates how we read literary works within the "penumbral text"
of associated theories of creativity.
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