Gary Saul Morson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 275079 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary Saul Morson |
| NOMBRES | Gary Saul |
| APELLIDO | Morson |
| FIRMA | MORSON G S |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3095-1322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Young Charles Darwin
What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce his theory of natural selection when many before him had started down the same path but failed? This book is the first to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal educat…
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Book Review| January 01 2016 Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing von Bremzen, Anya, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing. (New York: Broadway Books, 2014), 368 pp. Gary Saul Morson Gary Saul Morson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 135–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3323217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Introduction
It is often argued that a shared culture, or at least shared cultural references or practices, can help to foster peace and prevent war. This essay examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Lati…
War and Peace
Despite their professed multiculturalism, educated Americans find it hard to imagine that others do not share their liberal values. Does not everyone love their children and want peace? The author of the article, a Tolstoy scholar and student of Russian culture, discusses topics-war, revolution, and what one scholar has called "secular kenosis"-that mark radical differences between Russians and Americans. He then describes a debate between Tolsto…
Teaching Tolstoy with Toulmin
In a memorial essay on the philosopher Stephen Toulmin (1922-2009), the author discusses ideas that he and Toulmin drew, over the years, from their reading and coteaching of Tolstoy. He speculates that Toulmin's interest in Tolstoy may have been encouraged by Wittgenstein, Toulmin's teacher and a lover of Tolstoy. All three men understood philosophy as having taken a wrong turn with the rise of rationalism, which occasioned to the idea that socia…
The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace"
Marriage, Love, and Time in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
This article, by a specialist in Russian literature, suggests ways in which researchers on marriage and the family might learn from great realist novels. It explores differences between the humanities and social sciences, the need for a historical perspective on marriage, the role of temporality in love and family, the different kinds of sexual love, the nature of “prosaics,” the importance of the ordinary, and the Russian Writers' conception of …
Young Charles Darwin
Return to Process
Return to ProcessThe Unfolding of The Idiot Gary Saul Morson (bio) ... this study attempts to return process to criticism ... —Ralph Cohen Part One: The Types of Criticism Ralph Cohen carefully distinguished "process" criticism, which concerns the making and revising of a work, from product criticism, which treats the work as a finished artifact. In his two books on The Seasons, he practiced both criticisms superbly.1 Process criticism considers …
Contingency, Games, and Wit
When we cannot explain away the fundamental disorder of the world by finding a science, constructing a supposed social science, or passing laws, we may create artificial worlds that we can be sure conform to our minds because we have made them. Games create such a world, whose rules cannot be violated because then we would not be playing the game at all. Various games have ways of confronting contingency: they may allow for statistically predicta…
At Last
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Bakhtin, the Genres of Quotation, and the Aphoristic Consciousness
Narrativeness
Narrativeness" may be defined as the quality that makes narrative not merely present but essential. It comes in degrees, and there are narratives without narrativeness. Since the time of Leibniz, Western thought has favored models in which abstract scientific laws would ideally account for everything in nature and society (the ideal of a social science) and in which narrative would therefore be, at best, merely illustrative. But a number of think…
The Aphorism
Aphorism, maxim, witticism, dictum and other short expressions have no clear definition and have been little studied. The present essay initiates a study in terms of genre, where short forms are considered (in Bakhtin's spirit) in terms of their sense of experience. In particular, this essay contrasts the aphorism (as practiced by Lao Tzu, Pascal, Tolstoy, and Wittgenstein) in contrast to the dictum (Bentham, Marx, Descartes, Leibniz). The dictum…
Politics, Law, and Morality
And Quiet Flows the Vodka, or When Pushkin Comes to Shove
Paradoxical Dostoevsky
Philosophy in the nineteenth-century novel
When one considers the impact of Russian literature on world literature, one thinks first of all of the novel. Russia excelled in the novel to the extent that the Greeks and the English excelled in tragedy. To the extent - but not in the same way, because Greek and English tragedies offer the defining examples of the form, whereas the Russian masterpieces, while surely the greatest novels, defy, rather than define, their genre.
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel
Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philoso…
Sideshadowing and Tempics
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Contingency and Freedom, Prosaics and Process
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Prosaics Evolving
Art, Life, and Responsibility
Narrative and Freedom
In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, televis…
Misanthropology
Misanthropology Gary Saul Morson (bio) I have only found the key to the cipher of the Christian religion . . . theology is anthropology. Ludwig Feuerbach It’s a jolly thing that there always are and will be masters and slaves in the world, so there will always be a little maid-of-all-work and her master, and you know, that’s all that’s needed for happiness. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what has it to do with thee or me?…
Narrative and freedom
Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, television, and much more, Gary Saul Morson examines the relation of time to narrative form and to an ethical dimension of the literary experience. Morson asserts that the way we think about th…
Rethinking Bakhtin
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
Hidden in Plain View
Note on translations Introduction Part I. War On Narrative: 1. Tolstoy's absolute language 2. Formal peculiarities of 'War and Peace' 3. Solving the puzzle of 'War and Peace' Part II. Hazardous Systems: 4. The hazards of history 5. The problems of historiography: negative absolutes and negative explanations 6. Forms of negative narration Part III. Selves and Decisions: 7. The aggregate of self 8. Pierre and Andrei: decisions, language, relevation…
Bakhtin, Genres, and Temporality
patterns. In Bakhtin's terms, the great systems imagine the world entirely in terms of what is given and thus leave no room for what is created. The result is that nothing is surprising because everything is ready-made: An object is ready-made, the linguistic means for its depiction are ready-made, the artist himself is ready-made, and his world view is ready-made. And here with ready-made means, in light of a ready-made world view, the ready-mad…
Sideshadowing and Tempics
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Who Speaks for Bakhtin
Narrativeness
Narrativeness" may be defined as the quality that makes narrative not merely present but essential. It comes in degrees, and there are narratives without narrativeness. Since the time of Leibniz, Western thought has favored models in which abstract scientific laws would ideally account for everything in nature and society (the ideal of a social science) and in which narrative would therefore be, at best, merely illustrative. But a number of think…
The Aphorism
Aphorism, maxim, witticism, dictum and other short expressions have no clear definition and have been little studied. The present essay initiates a study in terms of genre, where short forms are considered (in Bakhtin's spirit) in terms of their sense of experience. In particular, this essay contrasts the aphorism (as practiced by Lao Tzu, Pascal, Tolstoy, and Wittgenstein) in contrast to the dictum (Bentham, Marx, Descartes, Leibniz). The dictum…
Paradoxical Dostoevsky
Contingency and Freedom, Prosaics and Process
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn 1998
Marriage, Love, and Time in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
This article, by a specialist in Russian literature, suggests ways in which researchers on marriage and the family might learn from great realist novels. It explores differences between the humanities and social sciences, the need for a historical perspective on marriage, the role of temporality in love and family, the different kinds of sexual love, the nature of “prosaics,” the importance of the ordinary, and the Russian Writers' conception of …
Bakhtin, the Genres of Quotation, and the Aphoristic Consciousness
Misanthropology
Misanthropology Gary Saul Morson (bio) I have only found the key to the cipher of the Christian religion . . . theology is anthropology. Ludwig Feuerbach It’s a jolly thing that there always are and will be masters and slaves in the world, so there will always be a little maid-of-all-work and her master, and you know, that’s all that’s needed for happiness. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what has it to do with thee or me?…
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Boundaries of Genre
The Boundaries of Genre
Tolstoy's Absolute Language
The Reader as Voyeur
State of the Field
Dostoevsky. The Literary Artist
Socialist Realism and Literary Theory
FOR UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS, most discussions of socialist realism resemble elegies more than analyses. They usually lament the passing of the pre-revolutionary tradition, deplore the brutal methods by which literature has been emasculated and writers silenced, and condemn the government policies that have rewarded a Fadeev with a Stalin prize and removed Dostoevsky from the secondary school curriculum. Now, I also prefer Dostoevsky to Fadeev and …
The War of the Well(e)s
Journal Article The War of the Well(e)s Get access Gary Saul Morson Gary Saul Morson 1Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Fellow of the National Humanities Center for 1978–79. His book on the theory of literary genres and their relation to interpretation, Utopia and its Parodies: The Generic Traditions of Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. A secon…
Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process
Tolstoy's Absolute Language
The Boundaries of Genre
Literary, Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process
The Boundaries of Genre
Dostoevsky's Anti-Semitism and the Critics
The Boundaries of Genre
Who Speaks for Bakhtin
Dialogue, Monologue, and the Social
The Baxtin Industry
Literature and History
Hidden in Plain View
Note on translations Introduction Part I. War On Narrative: 1. Tolstoy's absolute language 2. Formal peculiarities of 'War and Peace' 3. Solving the puzzle of 'War and Peace' Part II. Hazardous Systems: 4. The hazards of history 5. The problems of historiography: negative absolutes and negative explanations 6. Forms of negative narration Part III. Selves and Decisions: 7. The aggregate of self 8. Pierre and Andrei: decisions, language, relevation…
Hidden in Plain View
Hidden in Plain View
Mikhail Bakhtin
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. Indeed, in a career spanning some sixty years, he experienced both dramatic and gradual changes in his thinking, returned to abandoned i…
Rethinking Bakhtin
Rethinking Bakhtin
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
Bakhtin, Genres, and Temporality
patterns. In Bakhtin's terms, the great systems imagine the world entirely in terms of what is given and thus leave no room for what is created. The result is that nothing is surprising because everything is ready-made: An object is ready-made, the linguistic means for its depiction are ready-made, the artist himself is ready-made, and his world view is ready-made. And here with ready-made means, in light of a ready-made world view, the ready-mad…
Mixail Baxtin, Our Contemporary
Imputations and Amputations
Wall and Thomson keep repeating this charge: they refer to our insistence on at the expense of space. They cannot understand why one would be more important than the other, why the chronos would have to be more important than the topos [60]. And they observe: It is therefore hard to understand why commentators like Morson and Emerson . .. insist that chronotopes, for Bakhtin, are more temporal than spatial [59-60]. Here's why: we are paraphrasing…
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