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In relation to foreshadowing, the literary critic Gary Morson describes its opposite, sideshadowing. [11] Found notably in the epic novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, sideshadowing is the practice of including scenes that turn out to have no relevance to the plot. That, according to Morson, increases the verisimilitude of the fiction ...
Gary Saul Morson (born April 19, 1948) [1] 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.
The Slavic studies scholar Gary Saul Morson has written in Commentary that Pevear and Volokhonsky translations "take glorious works and reduce them to awkward and unsightly muddles". [18] Criticism has been focused on the excessive literalness of the couple's translations and the perception that they miss the original tone of the authors. [18]
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The Foreshadowing is a historical fiction novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2005. It takes place during the beginning of World War I , following a 17-year-old British girl named Sasha who has premonitions of death.
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