Dostoevsky S Polyphonic Talent

Author : Joe E. Barnhart
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0761830979

Get Book

Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent by Joe E. Barnhart Pdf

This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North Texas set the stage for this volume. Scholars contributed original papers focusing on how Dostoevsky's literary art and philosophical insights enrich one another. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote and thought polyphonically. His polyphonic method is both his special literary technique and his distinctive way of probing theological, social, and philosophical depths. As Bakhtin and Terras suggest, all Dostoevsky's major literary inventions--from the underground man to the vitriolic Grushenka--are products of his ability to listen profoundly to his own characters. Like the genius author-redactor of 1 and 2 Samuel, he reports the heights and depths of human emotion and behavior, whether exploring the anatomy of dysfunctional families, making the heart soar with Zosima's vision of forgiveness, or giving Ivan Karamazov full rein to challenge theism. Dostoevsky's characters transform themselves into irregular verbs whose fierce independence emerges only because of their desperate and inescapable interdependence. His major characters are text, subtext, and context for each other. They play inside each other's head and answer in one way or another.

Author : Julian W Connolly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623560508

Get Book

Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov by Julian W Connolly Pdf

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. With its dramatic portrayal of a Russian family in crisis and its intense investigation into the essential questions of human existence, the novel has had a major impact on writers and thinkers across a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to religious and political philosophy. This proposed reader's guide has two major goals: to help the reader understand the place of Dostoevsky's novel in Russian and world literature, and to illuminate the writer's compelling and complex artistic vision. The plot of the novel centers on the murder of the patriarch of the Karamazov family and the subsequent attempt to discover which of the brothers bears responsibility for the murder, but Dostoevsky's ultimate interests are far more thought-provoking. Haunted by the question of God's existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask what kind of God would create a world in which innocent children have to suffer, and he hoped that his entire novel would provide the answer. The design of Dostoevsky's work, in which one character poses questions that other characters must try to answer, provides a stimulating basis for reader engagement. Having taught university courses on Dostoevsky's work for over twenty years, Julian W. Connolly draws upon modern and traditional approaches to the novel to produce a reader's guide that stimulate the reader's interest and provides a springboard for further reflection and study.

Author : Michael R. Katz,Alexander Burry
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781603295796

Get Book

Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment by Michael R. Katz,Alexander Burry Pdf

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of dire poverty, disillusionment, radicalism, and nihilism interwoven with religious faith and utopianism. In Dostoevsky's innovative style, which he called fantastic realism, the narrator frequently reports from within the protagonist's mind. The depiction of the desperate lives of tradespeople, students, alcoholics, prostitutes, and criminals gives readers insight into the urban society of St. Petersburg at the time. The first part of this book offers instructors guidance on editions and translations, a map of St. Petersburg showing locations mentioned in the novel, a list of characters and an explanation of the Russian naming system, and recommendations for further reading. In the second part, essays analyze key scenes, address many of Dostoevsky's themes, and consider the roles of ethics, gender, money, Orthodox Christianity, and social justice in the narrative. The volume concludes with essays on digital media, film adaptations, and questions of translation.

Author : Caitlin Smith Gilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532686399

Get Book

Subordinated Ethics by Caitlin Smith Gilson Pdf

With Dostoyevsky’s Idiot and Aquinas’ Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.

Author : Daniel Whistler
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474405881

Get Book

Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology by Daniel Whistler Pdf

Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature

Author : Polina E. Vaidman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300235449

Get Book

Tchaikovsky Papers by Polina E. Vaidman Pdf

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer’s daily concerns, private thoughts, and playful sense of humor. Often intimate and sometimes bawdy, these texts also offer a new perspective on Tchaikovsky’s upbringing, his relations with family members, his patriotism, and his homosexuality, collectively contributing to a greater understanding of a major artist who had a profound impact on Russian culture and society. This is an essential compendium for cultural and social historians as well as musicologists and music lovers.

Author : Caitlin Smith Gilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725295636

Get Book

As It Is in Heaven by Caitlin Smith Gilson Pdf

The loss of a real and heartfelt belief in God--and by "real" I mean an experience that is both steady and moving, ethereal though down-to-earth, sentimental but never trite--comes from an earlier more foundational loss, namely that of an ardent and directed desire for heaven, and more specifically, that paradisal longing for the resurrected life. This book seeks to recover the neglected nature of heaven, degraded into something "out-there" and unknown, degraded further into a vague wish for immortality and the often empty words of consolation. Or even worse, the almost comic book reduction of heaven to an earthly social(ist) paradise, the immanentization of the Christian eschaton. The vague "better place," which is meant well, often means nothing at all, or worse than that can hamper us when approaching and engaging the mystery of grief. This book will address and interrogate various questions about the nature of the afterlife--on the status of guilt, forgiveness, friendship, love, embodiment, sexuality--and propose various paths to answers. We are talking about that sacred innermost promise: the hope of paradisal reunion most secret and yet most universal, never abstract and shapeless, but embodied and individual. We must wonder whether our casual forgetting of this estuary of human hope, the resurrected life, has caused us to lose ourselves in such a way that we do not even know what we have lost.

Author : Mikel Burley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350098329

Get Book

A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion by Mikel Burley Pdf

This book is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary sources in an approach that is both methodologically innovative and expansive in its cross-cultural and multi-religious scope. Employing his expertise in interdisciplinary and Wittgenstein-influenced methods, Mikel Burley draws on works of narrative fiction and ethnography, including Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, to critically engage with existing approaches to the philosophy of religion and advocate a radical, pluralist approach. Breaking away from the standard fixation on a narrow construal of theism, topics discussed include conceptions of compassion in Buddhist ethics, cannibalism in mortuary rituals, divine possession and animal sacrifice in Hindu Goddess worship and animism in indigenous traditions. Original and engaging, Burley's synthesis of philosophical, anthropological and literary elements expands and diversifies the philosophy of religion, providing an essential introduction for anyone interested in studying the radical plurality of forms that religion takes in human life.

Author : Vlad Petre Glăveanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1812 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030909130

Get Book

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible by Vlad Petre Glăveanu Pdf

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible represents a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners interested in an emerging multidisciplinary area within psychology and the social sciences: the study of how we engage with and cultivate the possible within self, society and culture. Far from being opposed either to the actual or the real, the possible engages with concrete facts and experiences, with the result of transforming them. This encyclopedia examines the notion of the possible and the concepts associated with it from standpoints within psychology, philosophy, sociology, neuroscience and logic, as well as multidisciplinary fields of research including anticipation studies, future studies, complexity theory and creativity research. Presenting multiple perspectives on the possible, the authors consider the distinct social, cultural and psychological processes - e.g., imagination, counterfactual thinking, wonder, play, inspiration, and many others - that define our engagement with new possibilities in domains as diverse as the arts, design and business.

Author : Slav N. Gratchev
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498565547

Get Book

The Polyphonic World of Cervantes and Dostoevsky by Slav N. Gratchev Pdf

This book shows that Cervantes deliberately employed polyphonic structure in Don Quixote, a mode with more sophisticated expressive possibilities that monophonic narration could not offer. It suggests that Don Quixote can be treated as a semi-polyphonic hybrid novel that successfully amalgamates two narrative modes, monophonic and polyphonic.

Author : Slav Gratchev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 333006773X

Get Book

The Polyphonic World of Cervantes and Dostoevsky by Slav Gratchev Pdf

Author : Bernard J. Paris
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015073866488

Get Book

Dostoevsky's Greatest Characters by Bernard J. Paris Pdf

Addressed to all readers of Dostoevsky, as well as to teachers, students, and specialists, this lucidly-written study approaches the underground man, Raskolnikov, and Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov as imagined human beings whose feelings, behaviors, and ideas are expressions of their personalities and experience. While asserting the autonomy of Dostoevsky’s characters, Paris shows that there is a tension between them and the author’s rhetoric and demonstrates that the characters often escape their illustrative roles. By paying close attention to mimetic detail, this book seeks to recover Dostoevsky’s psychological intuitions and fully to appreciate his brilliance in characterization.

Author : Wladislaw Georgievich Krasnow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0860434206

Get Book

Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky by Wladislaw Georgievich Krasnow Pdf

Author : Lynn Ellen Patyk
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810145740

Get Book

Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs by Lynn Ellen Patyk Pdf

Confronting Bakhtin’s formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers—and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approach Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art. Challenging, revising, and expanding on Mikhail Bakhtin’s foundational analysis in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Patyk demonstrates that provocation is the moving mover of Dostoevsky’s poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and capture our attention. Yet the full scope of Dostoevsky’s provocative authorial activity can only be grasped alongside an understanding of his key themes, which both probed and exploited the most divisive conflicts of his era. The ultimate stakes of such friction are, for him, nothing less than moral responsibility and the truth of identity. Sober and strikingly original, compassionate but not uncritical, Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs exposes the charged current in the wiring of our modern selves. In an economy of attention and its spoils, provocation is an inexhaustibly renewable and often toxic resource.

Author : Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Mikhaĭlovskiĭ
Publisher : Ardis Publishers
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cruelty in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106006611542

Get Book

Dostoevsky--a Cruel Talent by Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Mikhaĭlovskiĭ Pdf