Doctor Zhivago: A Critical CompanionEdith W. Clowes Northwestern University Press, 1995 - 169 pages This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's classic story of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. An introduction places the novel and its author within Russian history and literature, and essays by scholars offer opinion and analysis of Pasternak's method and thought. Finally, there is correspondence relating to the novel and a bibliography chosen by the editor. |
Contents
Literary Reception | 49 |
Lara and Tonya | 62 |
Temporal Counterpoint as a Principle of Formation | 89 |
The Relationship of Lyrical and Narrative Plot | 115 |
Correspondence Relating to Doctor Zhivago | 127 |
Contributors | |
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Aleksandr Aleksandr Blok Anna Anna Ivanovna artistic associations Boris Pasternak Borisov and Pasternak characters Clowes coincidences conformist consciousness contrapuntal creative CreĆ¼sa critics culture dacha death discourse Doctor Zhivago Dudorov episode essay everything Evgraf fate feminine final hero heroine human idea interpretation kind Komarovsky Kreutzer Sonata language Lara Lara's letter Lev Tolstoy linked literary living lyric Maria Marina Tsvetaeva Materialy Max Hayward Meaning of Love Misha Moscow motifs nak's narrative plot national epic nature novel Pasha Paster Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago Pasternak's novel person philosophical physical love poems poet poetic poetry prose protagonist reader reception relationship revolution role Russian Language Russian Literature Samdevyatov scene sense Slavic social Solovyov Soviet spiritual love streetcar theme things thought tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's Tolstoyan Tonya tradition translation Uncle Nikolai University Press Varykino Vedenyapin whole wrote Yury Yury Zhivago Yury's Yuryatin Zhivago's writing