Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago": A Critical Companion (9780810112117): Edith W. Clowes

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

EDITH W. CLOWES is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature and former Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at Purdue University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

I.
INTRODUCTION

Doctor Zhivago in the Post-Soviet Era: A Re-Introduction

Clowes, Edith W.

II.
CRITICISM

Yury Zhivago's Readers: Literary Reception in Pasternak's Novel and in His Time

Avins, Carol J.

Characterization in Doctor Zhivago: Lara and Tonya

Clowes, Edith W.

“Soaked in The Meaning of Love and The Kreutzer Sonata”: The Nature of Love in Doctor Zhivago

Spencer, Jerome

Temporal Counterpoint as a Principle of Formation in Doctor Zhivago

Gasparov, Boris

The Relationship of Lyrical and Narrative “Plot” in Doctor Zhivago

Magomedova, Dina

III.
PRIMARY SOURCES

Correspondence Relating to Doctor Zhivago

IV.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Contributors

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