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New. Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" - an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis - anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers; and, his venture into nonfiction through his book "Sakhalin Island". By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling conditions of the Russian penal colony on "Sakhalin", Chekhov showed how empirical details combined with a literary flair can bring readers face to face with distant, different lives, enlarging a sense of human responsibility. Highlighting this balance of the empirical and the literary, Narayan uses Chekhov to bring new energy to the writing of ethnography and…
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- Title Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
- Author Kirin Narayan
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2012-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226568188 / 0226568180
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Authorship, Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011023619
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.8
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