Gary Saul Morson
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gary Saul Morson is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Prior to this he was chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania for many years.
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- Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (1992) (682)
- Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence (1991) (511)
- Russian formalist criticism : four essays (1968) (386)
- Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (1996) (126)
- Rethinking Bakhtin : extensions and challenges (1990) (105)
- A Writer's Diary (1993) (87)
- Bakhtin : essays and dialogues on his work (1986) (75)
- Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning: The Process of Ideological Becoming (2004) (74)
- The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (1982) (50)
- The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's "Diary of a Writer" and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (1985) (49)
- Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (1986) (45)
- Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in "War and Peace." (1991) (43)
- Cents and Sensibility (2018) (33)
- Bakhtin, Genres, and Temporality* (1991) (31)
- Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, by Tzvetan Todorov; and Mikhail Bakhtin, by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist: The New York Times Book Review (1985) (30)
- The Aphorism: Fragments from the Breakdown of Reason (2003) (29)
- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1998) (28)
- Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities (2017) (28)
- Narrative and Freedom (1994) (24)
- Sideshadowing and Tempics. (1998) (24)
- Politics, Law, and Morality: Essays by V.S. Soloviev (2000) (22)
- Prosaic Bakhtin: Landmarks, Anti-intelligentsialism, and the Russian Counter-Tradition (1993) (22)
- "Anna Karenina" in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely (2007) (20)
- Dialogue, Monologue, and the Social: A Reply to Ken Hirschkop (1985) (18)
- Bakhtin and the Present Moment (1991) (18)
- Who Speaks for Bakhtin?: A Dialogic Introduction (1983) (17)
- The Emperor Redressed: Critiquing Critical Theory (1995) (17)
- Socialist Realism and Literary Theory (1979) (15)
- The future of prediction (2015) (14)
- What is Agriculture (1996) (13)
- Narrativeness (2003) (12)
- The Baxtin Industry (1986) (12)
- The Heresiarch of Meta (1978) (10)
- Prosaics: An Approach to the Humanities (1988) (10)
- Bakhtin and the Teaching of Literature (2007) (10)
- Dostoevsky's Anti-Semitism and the Critics: A Review Article (1983) (10)
- The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel (2012) (9)
- Contingency and Poetics (1998) (9)
- Contingency and Freedom, Prosaics and Process. (1998) (9)
- Cleaning up Bakhtin's Carnival Act@@@Notre Rabelais@@@Gedachtnis und Literatur: Intertextualitat in der Russischen Moderne@@@Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics@@@Dialogue at the Margins: Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic Relativity (1993) (9)
- The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction* (1978) (8)
- Bakhtin, the genres of quotation, and the aphoristic consciousness (2006) (6)
- Tolstoy's Absolute Language (1981) (6)
- What is the intelligentsia? once more, an old russian question (1993) (6)
- Freedom and responsibility in Russian literature : essays in honor of Robert Louis Jackson (1995) (6)
- Aphoristic Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism (2007) (6)
- The War of the Well(e)s (1979) (6)
- Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities (2016) (6)
- Essential Narrative: Tempics and the Return of Process: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (1999) (6)
- The Chronotope of Humanness: Bakhtin and Dostoevsky: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives (2010) (5)
- M. M. Bakhtin (2004) (5)
- Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature (2015) (5)
- Misanthropology (1996) (4)
- Prosaics and Anna Karenina (1988) (4)
- The Fabulous Future?: America and the World in 2040 (2015) (4)
- Verbal Pollution in The Brothers Karamazov (1986) (4)
- Prosaics and other provocations: Empathy, open time, and the novel (Ars Rossika) (2013) (4)
- The Fabulous Future (2015) (4)
- How Did Dostoevsky Know (1999) (4)
- Strange Synchronies and Surplus Possibilities: Bakhtin on Time (1993) (4)
- Sideshadows: The Determination of Free Will (2005) (3)
- Contingency, Games, and Wit (2009) (3)
- Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen (review) (2015) (3)
- Philosophy in the nineteenth-century novel (1998) (3)
- Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature (1995) (3)
- The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace" (2010) (3)
- Opinion and the world of possibilities (1995) (3)
- Imputations and Amputations: Reply to Wall and Thomson (1993) (3)
- Marriage, Love, and Time in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (2010) (3)
- Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace (1988) (3)
- The pevearsion of Russian literature (2010) (3)
- Preface: Perhaps Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work (1986) (3)
- The Russian Debate on Narrative: An Oxford Guide (2006) (3)
- Signs of Design (2006) (3)
- Contingency and the Literature of Process (2002) (2)
- Bullish on 2040 (2015) (2)
- The lingering stench: Airing Stalin’s archives (2009) (2)
- The Daily Miracle: Teaching the Ideas of Anna Karenina (2003) (2)
- Conclusion: reading Dostoevskii (2002) (2)
- The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina (2015) (2)
- A History of Russian Thought: Tradition and counter-tradition: the radical intelligentsia and classical Russian literature (2010) (2)
- Extracts from a Heteroglossary: Language, Culture, Critical Theory (1997) (2)
- The god of onions: The Brothers Karamazov and the mythic prosaic (2004) (2)
- The Worlds of Others (2011) (2)
- Prosaic Chekhov: Metadrama, the Intelligentsia, and Uncle Vanya (1990) (2)
- Education: The future of higher education in the United States (and the World) (2015) (2)
- Genre and Hero/Fathers and Sons: Intergeneric Dialogues, Generic Refugees, and the Hidden Prosaic (1991) (2)
- The Prosaics of Process (2000) (1)
- The Quotation and Its Genres (2005) (1)
- Minds Wide Shut (2023) (1)
- How Much Do Dead Souls Weigh?: Festschrift for Charles A. Moser on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (1997) (1)
- Genre, Aphorism, Herodotus (2009) (1)
- The Imitation of Dostoevsky: Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky (1987) (1)
- Apologetics and Negative Apologetics: Or, Dialogues of a Jewish Slavist: Jewish Identity in the Academy (1996) (1)
- Anna Karenina in our time (2007) (1)
- Dostoevskii, Fedor Mikhailovich (1998) (1)
- Reading the Extra (2004) (1)
- War and Peace: Meditations of a Tolstoy Scholar (2016) (1)
- Dostoevsky: The literary artist (1976) (1)
- Brooding Stiva: The Masterpiece Theatre Anna Karenina (2001) (1)
- Commentary: Chronotopes and Anachronism: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (1986) (1)
- Prosaics and Other Provocations (2019) (1)
- Return to Process: The Unfolding of The Idiot (2009) (1)
- Reading Between the Genres: Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer as Metafiction (1979) (1)
- TO THE MEMORY OF ROSALIE COLIE (1999) (1)
- Bakhtin Monologized@@@Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (1992) (1)
- The Way We Teach Now (1998) (1)
- Conclusion: Reading Dostoevsii (2002) (1)
- Solzhenitsyn’s Cathedrals (2020) (0)
- Extract on polyphony from Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (1999) (0)
- Axes to Grind (1999) (0)
- Intelligence and the Storytelling Process: Narrative and Intelligence (1995) (0)
- Dyson and Tolstoy, Undecidability and Prosaics (1988) (0)
- How to Read Crime and Punishment (1992) (0)
- Gogol’s Parables of Explanation: Logos and the Russian Word (1992) (0)
- The Disease of Theory: Crime and Punishment at 150 (2016) (0)
- The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically by David M. Bethea (review) (2014) (0)
- The Svijazhsky Enigma: Tolstoy and Brotherhood (1996) (0)
- Symposium of Quotations (2012) (0)
- 6. Grass-Roots Snapshots (2017) (0)
- Prosaics, Criticism, and Ethics (1989) (0)
- Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in War and Peace (2012) (0)
- The minister of paradox (2014) (0)
- Books Received (1996) (0)
- Foreword: Soloviev, the Russians, and Ourselves (2017) (0)
- The War of the Well(e)s: A Critical Casebook (1984) (0)
- The Intelligentsia and Its Critics (2009) (0)
- Thugland: A review of Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain (2008) (0)
- Commentary: Traditions and Institutions: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (1986) (0)
- Thugland: Russian Freedom and Despotism: The New Criterion (2008) (0)
- Quixote: The Intolerable Dream (2015) (0)
- Extract from Anna Karenina’s Omens (1995) (0)
- For the Time Being: Sideshadowing, Criticism, and the Russian Countertradition: Interdisciplinarity and Literary Theory (1993) (0)
- Writer’s diary: Gary Saul Morson on how Fyodor Dostoevsky created “an intimate bond between ideas and personality”: Simply Charly (2013) (0)
- The Reader as Voyeur: Leo Tolstoy (1986) (0)
- Literature and responsibility (2010) (0)
- Chekhov's Enlightenment (2013) (0)
- The Process and Composition of A Writer’s Diary (2009) (0)
- He Heard the Screams (2010) (0)
- Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process: A Review Article (1981) (0)
- Prosaic Bakhtin (longer version) (1995) (0)
- This page left intentionally blank: Absences in Anna Karenina: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert l. Belknap (2014) (0)
- 2. Red, White, and Bruised (2017) (0)
- David M. Bethea. the Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (2013) (0)
- Work and the Authentic Life in Tolstoy (1997) (0)
- Fatal Attraction: Commentary (1993) (0)
- For Humanity’s Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture by Lina Steiner (2012) (0)
- Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave: The College Rankings Game (2017) (0)
- Why Read Chicherin?: Essays by B. N. Chicherin (1998) (0)
- Chapter 2. A Slow Walk to Judgment Hedgehogs and Foxes, Wisdom and Prediction (2017) (0)
- Foreword (2017) (0)
- State of the Field: A Review Article (1978) (0)
- Literature and Responsibility: 2009 AATSEEL Distinguished Professor Lecture (2010) (0)
- Dostoevsky’s Great Experiment (1993) (0)
- Literary, Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Creative Process@@@Unconscious Structure in The Idiot: A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis (1982) (0)
- Quotations and Misquotations: Part Two (2005) (0)
- Sonya’s Wisdom (extract from “Prosaic Chekhov") (1995) (0)
- Tempics and The Idiot: Essays in Honour of Jostein Bortnes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (1997) (0)
- II. Me and My Double: Selfhood, Consciousness, and Empathy in The Double (2019) (0)
- The Worst of Times: LENINGRAD The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid (2011) (0)
- Teaching as Impersonation (2002) (0)
- Tolstoi, Count Leo Nikolaevich (1998) (0)
- Coping with Utopia: Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky, Joanne Turnbull, Nikolai Formozov (1992) (0)
- Pevear/Volokhonsky version, ’Absolute Nonsense’ – Gogol’s Tales: The New Criterion (1998) (0)
- Bakhtin and the Politics of Criticism - Reply (1994) (0)
- Dostoevsky and the Holy Spirit: A Publication of Mediterranean, Slavic and Eastern Orthodox Studies (2000) (0)
- The Reader as Voyeur (2006) (0)
- Chapter 8. Humanomics A Dialogue of Disciplines (2017) (0)
- The Tyranny of Theory (2015) (0)
- The Dark Russian: Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith (2017) (0)
- Chapter 6. The Best of the Humanities (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7. De-hedgehogizing Adam Smith The Economics That Might Be (2017) (0)
- In the Wolfhound Century: Commentary (1996) (0)
- Dostoevsky and Gogol: Texts and Criticism. Edited by Priscilla Meyer and Stephen Rudy. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979. xl, 295 pp. $15.00, cloth. $6.00, paper. (1981) (0)
- Dostoevsky’s Anti-Semitism (2005) (0)
- Herzen: The Hero of Skeptical Idealism (2016) (0)
- The Searcher: Review of Tolstoy: A Life in The Wall Street Journal by Rosamund Bartlett (2011) (0)
- Unmasking the Unmaskers (2010) (0)
- Dostoevsky and Gogol, Texts and Criticism, by Priscilla Meyer and Stephen Rudy, eds.: Slavic Review (1981) (0)
- Tolstoy: Macropedia: Knowledge in Depth (1997) (0)
- Dostoevsky: The Literary Artist, by Erik Krag: Slavic and East European Journal (1978) (0)
- 10. Texts with Blanks. This Page Left Intentionally Blank: Absences in Anna Karenina (2019) (0)
- Coping with Utopia: The American Scholar (1992) (0)
- Philosophy in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel (1998) (0)
- The Young Charles Darwin (2017) (0)
- The Imitation of Dostoevsky: The American Scholar (1987) (0)
- Isaac Babel’s Genre of Silence (2002) (0)
- Review of Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin: Russian Review (2008) (0)
- The Horror, the Horror (2018) (0)
- Voyeurism and Violence, With Constant Reference to Dostoevsky: An Essay in Misanthropology (2010) (0)
- Teaching Tolstoy with Toulmin (2011) (0)
- Soloviev, the Russians, and Ourselves (2000) (0)
- Durchdringender Gestank: Jonathan Brent gelangt in Stalins Archive (2009) (0)
- Time bandits among the intelligentsia: Russian parables for the American Academy (1994) (0)
- Could a Bit of Tolstoy and Austen Improve Economic Forecasting (2017) (0)
- Russian Literature: Macropedia: Knowledge in Depth (1997) (0)
- The Rustling of Cockroaches: London Review of Books (1995) (0)
- Art, Life, and Responsibility: Theoretical Approaches to Open and Closed Temporality (1996) (0)
- Chapter 4. Love Is in the Air . . . or at Least in the Error Term Case Study 2—What Economists Can and Cannot Teach Us about the Family (2017) (0)
- Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin (2008) (0)
- Emerson's Word: Part One (2005) (0)
- Slavists after the Soviet Union - Reply (1992) (0)
- Return to Genesis: Russian Formalist Theories of Creativity: A Retrospective Glance: A Festschrift in Honor of Victor Erlich (1985) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Power and Limits of the Economic Approach Case Study 1—How to Improve American Higher Education (2017) (0)
- The Potentials and Hazards of Prosaics (1989) (0)
- And Quiet Flows the Vodka; with The Devil’s Dictionary of Received Ideas (1999) (0)
- Poetic Justice, False Listening, and Falling in Love, Or, Why Anna Refuses a Divorce (1997) (0)
- Review of Dostoevsky the Thinker by James P. Scanlan: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002) (0)
- Persecution Complex: Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928, by Stephen Kotkin (2014) (0)
- Dostoyevsky: Macropedia: Knowledge in Depth (1997) (0)
- Our Three Selves (2016) (0)
- The Tolstoy Questions (1991) (0)
- Can Reading Literature Make Us Moral (2016) (0)
- Chapter 5. The Ultimate Question Case Study 3—Why Do Some Countries Develop Faster Than Others? Economics, Culture, and Institutions (2017) (0)
- “Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace,” three extracts from Hidden in Plain View (1996) (0)
- Will We Every Pin Down Pushkin (2017) (0)
- Writing Like Roulette (2003) (0)
- Chekhov’s Enlightement (2012) (0)
- Towards a Theory of Processual Literature: Proceedings of the NorFA Network in Russian Literature 1995-2000 (2000) (0)
- Stalin’s Ism: A review of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin (2017) (0)
- The Words of Others (2017) (0)
- Look to Literature to Understand: Review of The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mahir Desai (2017) (0)
- Review of For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture by Lina Steiner: Slavic and East European Journal (2012) (0)
- Roar of the ordinary: Review of Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism: The Humanistic Alternative by James Seaton (2014) (0)
- The Onegin of Our Times (1991) (0)
- War and Peace (2002) (0)
- Introduction: Literary History and the Russian Experience: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (1986) (0)
- The Emperor Redressed (1995) (0)
- What men quote by: Tolstoy, wise sayings, and moral tales (2010) (0)
- Weeding in (1993) (0)
- Mixail Baxtin, Our Contemporary: Review Article (1992) (0)
- “The Searcher,” of Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Life in The Wall Street Journal (Weekend Book Review) (2011) (0)
- Time and the Intelligentsia (a revised version of “For the Time Being”) (1995) (0)
- The Alibi for Theory: The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (1992) (0)
- The Certaintists (2021) (0)
- Crime and Punishment and the Intelligentsia (reprint of “how to Read Crime and Punishment”) (2000) (0)
- Romancing the Romanovs: On the personality and predilections of Russia’s royal family (2016) (0)
- Chapter 1. Spotting the Spoof The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School (2017) (0)
- Books Received (1986) (0)
- INTRODUCTION (2020) (0)
- XII. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double (2019) (0)
- Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, by Joseph Frank: Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review (1983) (0)
- Anti-utopianism in Notes from Underground, extract from The Boundaries of Genre (1989) (0)
- The Novel in the Age of Disintegration (2017) (0)
- The World to be (2015) (0)
- Crimes Against Culture: On Doctor Zhivago and the Dissident Faith of Boris Pasternak (2017) (0)
- Slavists after the Soviet Union (1992) (0)
- “Czar-Crossed Writers,” of Solomon Volkov, Romanov Riches: The Wall Street Journal (2011) (0)
- Commentary: The Lions of Siberia: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (1986) (0)
- “Eco’s Fake Protocols from Prague” (of Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery: A Novel in The Jewish Review of Books) (2012) (0)
- “The Worst of Times: A Soviet City Barely Survives,” of Anna Reid, The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944: The American Scholar (2011) (0)
- Introduction: Russian Cluster (1992) (0)
- Empathy With Us (2010) (0)
- Solzhenitsyn’s Cathedrals: On the literary works of the Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2017) (0)
- Uncle Vanya as Prosaic Melodrama: (A shortened version of “Prosaic Chekhov”) (1993) (0)
- Chekhov’s Art of the Prosaic: Great Ideas and Dramatic Events (2016) (0)
- Extract from Chapter 5 of Cents and Sensibility: What Economists Can Learn From the Humanities (2017) (0)
- The Humanomics of Tax Reform (2017) (0)
- Dostoevsky and the Literature of Process: What Open Time Looks Like (2015) (0)
- Dostoevskij's Writer's Diary as literature of process (1976) (0)
- Compounded Irony : Reactions to an Overdeterministic Existence (2002) (0)
- Dialogism: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2006) (0)
- Two extracts from Coping with Utopia (of Andrei Sinyavsky, Soviet Civilization) (1994) (0)
- Reading Between the Genres (1984) (0)
- Ethics 101 For Admissions Officers (2017) (0)
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