Literary Criticism

Dostoevsky’s Religion

Dostoevsky’s Religion

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005-05-02

Type: BOOK

He notes that Dostoevsky read the Gospel every night during his term in prison camp.32 When he speaks of the prisoners that Dostoevsky describes in Notes from the House of the Dead , " these men who go to servitude with a Gospel ...


Literary Criticism

Dostoevsky's The Idiot

Dostoevsky's The Idiot

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1998

Type: BOOK

The process is analogous to simile and metaphor as described by Aristotle : Dostoevsky challenges his reader to contem- plate and intuit similarities between Myshkin and Christ so that the reader can , in the process , “ learn " ( for ...


Anarchism in literature

Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons

Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Type: BOOK

The new struggle against both Dostoevsky's ideology and complacency toward it helped to revive for Stalinist literary culture the traditional notion of Dostoevshchina , a development which further hindered the rehabilitation of Demons .


Language Arts & Disciplines

Dostoevsky's the Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative

Dostoevsky's the Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2004-11-14

Type: BOOK

Martinsen, D, 1999, 'Dostoevsky's Liars as Humiliated Poets', Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura, 13, 139–46. — 1995, 'The Cover-Up: General Ivolgin and Private Kolpakov' SEEJ, 39.2, 184–99. Masing-Delic, I, and King, P, 1989, ...


Literary Criticism

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-02-14

Type: BOOK

The religious and philosophical dimensions of Dostoevsky's art have continued to draw attention, and noteworthy contributions in this area are Liza Knapp's The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics (1996), James Scanlan's ...


Philosophy

Dostoevsky's Political Thought

Dostoevsky's Political Thought

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-05-23

Type: BOOK

It is Dostoevsky's achievement as a political philosopher to have articulated this dynamic of "living life” and to have recovered, as a result, the vision of Christianity as the core—previously lacking—which alone could provide the only ...


Literary Criticism

Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs

Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2023-01-15

Type: BOOK

Already in his February 14, 1877, reply to Kovner, Dostoevsky “formulates” this infantile “Who, then, hates whom? Who is intolerant of whom?” argument as his rebuttal to Kovner's charges of Russian antisemitism.


Literary Criticism

CliffsNotes on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

CliffsNotes on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1970-10-23

Type: BOOK

Notes from Underground is perhaps Dostoevsky's most difficult work to read, but it also functions as an introduction to his greater novels later in his career. The ideas expressed in Notes from Underground become central to all of ...


Philosophy

Dostoevsky’s Legal and Moral Philosophy

Dostoevsky’s Legal and Moral Philosophy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Type: BOOK

to our inability to embrace and act upon Dostoevsky's paramount normative prescriptions. In any event, whatever their animating source, Dostoevsky's ruminations on the Russian national character and the country's universal spirit ...


Literary Criticism

Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2022-04-05

Type: BOOK

The most comprehensive source on Dostoevsky's life and work is undoubtedly Joseph Frank's magisterial five-volume literary biography cum intellectual history entitled Dostoevsky. Volume 4 of Frank's work, The Miraculous Years, 1865–71, ...