Tolstoy on war : narrative art and historical truth in War and peace / edited by Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin.

Other author McPeak, Rickie Allen.
Other author Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionvi, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Tolstoy on war, Russia, and empire / Dominic Lieven -- The use of historical sources in War and peace / Dan Ungurianu -- Moscow in 1812 : myths and realities / Alexander M. Martin -- The French at war : representations of the enemy in War and peace / Alan Forrest -- Symposium of quotations : wit and other short genres in War and peace / Gary Saul Morson -- The great man in War and peace / Jeff Love -- War and peace from the military point of view / Donna Tussing Orwin -- Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the duel as microcosm of war / Rick McPeak -- The awful poetry of war : Tolstoy's Borodino / Donna Tussing Orwin -- Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the dialectics of war / Andreas Herberg-Rothe -- The disobediences of War and peace / Elizabeth D. Samet -- Tolstoy the international relations theorist / David A. Welch -- War and peace at West Point / Rick McPeak.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.
LCCN 2012015299
ISBN9780801448980 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801448980 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801478178 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801478170 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PG3365 .V65 T65 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold