N K Mikhailovsky S Criticism Of Dostoevsky

Author : Marina Kanevskaya
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050756314

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N.K. Mikhailovsky's Criticism of Dostoevsky by Marina Kanevskaya Pdf

This study analyzes why Mikhailovsky - a leading Russian socialist philosopher and literary critic of the mid-19th century - expressed the most insightful, proto-Bakhtinian views on Dostoevsky's writings. It examines the social and cultural context, specifically in the political climate of Mikhailovsky's journal Otechestvennye Zapiski, the most popular magazine of its time. Russian socialist and populist literary criticism remains terra incognita outside Russia, and stereotypical perceptions of it as obtuse, boring, and appropriated by socialist realism has prevented scholars from focusing on the literary and ideological values of it. However, the roots of modern Russian thought and self-identity took their shape under the direct influence of such social thinkers as Mikhailovsky. Examining the proto-Bakhtinian traits of Mikhailovsky's criticism of Dostoevsky shows the cultural and historical pretext of Bakhtin's discoveries.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : 9781438115252

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Fyodor Dostoevsky by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a biography the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky along with critical views of his work.

Author : Paul Fung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351569293

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Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being by Paul Fung Pdf

For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years, illness is an ineradicable part of existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set of physical symptoms and a state of survival in which the protagonists incessantly try to articulate, theorize, or master what is ungraspable in their everyday experience. Their attempts to deal with what they cannot control or comprehend results in disappointment, or what Dostoevsky called a mystical terror. Dostoevsky's heroes are unable fully to understand this state, and their existence becomes 'epileptic' in so far as self-knowledge and self-coincidence are never achieved. Fung explores new critical pathways by reexamining five of Dostoevsky's post-Siberian novels. Drawing on insights from writers including Benjamin, Blanchot, Freud, Lacan and Nietzsche, the book takes epilepsy as a trope for discussing the unspeakable moments in the texts, and is intended for students and scholars who are interested in the subject of modernity, critique of the visual, and dialogues between philosophy and literature. Paul Fung is Assistant Professor in English at Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong.

Author : George Pattison,Diane Oenning Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521782784

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Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition by George Pattison,Diane Oenning Thompson Pdf

Dostoevsky is one of Russia's greatest novelists and a major influence in modern debates about religion, both in Russia and the West. This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in his work. The aim of this collection is not to abstract Dostoevsky's religious 'teaching' from his literary works, but to explore the interaction between his Christian faith and his writing. The essays cover such topics as temptation, grace and law, Dostoevsky's use of the gospels and hagiography, Trinitarianism, and the Russian tradition of the veneration of icons, as well as reading aloud, and dialogism. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, there are also discussions of lesser-known works such as The Landlady and A Little Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree.

Author : Victor Terras
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299160548

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Reading Dostoevsky by Victor Terras Pdf

Admirers have praised Fedor Dostoevsky as the Russian Shakespeare, while his critics have slighted his novels as merely cheap amusements. In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, the author asks readers to draw their own conclusions about the nineteenth-century Russian writer. Discussing psychological, political, mythical, and philosophical approaches, he guides readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.

Author : Marina Kostalevsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300060963

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Dostoevsky and Soloviev by Marina Kostalevsky Pdf

Examines the friendship and interrelated thought of the novelist Fedor Dostoevsky and the philosopher Vladimir Soloviev. The text provides biographical detail and a comparative analysis of their principal works from philosophical, literary, historical and religious perspectives.

Author : Gennady Barabtarlo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789203660

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Cold Fusion by Gennady Barabtarlo Pdf

While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching these cultural influences were for both countries, affecting many spheres of intellectual and daily life such as philosophy and religion, education and ideology, sciences and their application, arts and letters, custom and language. The German-Russian relationship has always been particularly intense. Oscillating as it has between infatuation and contempt, it has always been marked by a singular paradox: a German cultural presence in Russia resulting either in a more or less complete fusion, as in the case of Russifield German, or in a pronounced mutual repulsion, accompanied by the denigration of each other's culture as inferior. It is this curious paradox that determines the perspectives of the articles that were specially written for this volume, providing it with a unifying focus.

Author : Irina Sirotkina
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801876899

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Diagnosing Literary Genius by Irina Sirotkina Pdf

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association The vital place of literature and the figure of the writer in Russian society and history have been extensively studied, but their role in the evolution of psychiatry is less well known. In Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930, Irina Sirotkina explores the transformations of Russian psychiatric practice through its relationship to literature. During this period, psychiatrists began to view literature as both an indicator of the nation's mental health and an integral part of its well-being. By aligning themselves with writers, psychiatrists argued that the aim of their science was not dissimilar to the literary project of exploring the human soul and reflecting on the psychological ailments of the age. Through the writing of pathographies (medical biographies), psychiatrists strengthened their social standing, debated political issues under the guise of literary criticism, and asserted moral as well as professional claims. By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period.

Author : Marina Balina,Nancy Condee,Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810117673

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Endquote by Marina Balina,Nancy Condee,Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko Pdf

Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological clichés of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. An original and provocative guide, Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style examines the conceptual aspect of sots-art, sots-art poetry, and sots-art prose, and discusses where these still-vital intellectual currents may lead.

Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400844234

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Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank Pdf

The book description for the previously published "Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865" is not yet available.

Author : Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Mikhaĭlovskiĭ
Publisher : Ardis Publishers
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cruelty in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106006611542

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Dostoevsky--a Cruel Talent by Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Mikhaĭlovskiĭ Pdf

Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351138383

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The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Douglas Hedley Pdf

The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very idea of "evil" is highly contentious in modern thought and this period was one in which the concept was intensely debated and criticized. The persistence of the idea of evil is a testament to the abiding significance of theology in the period, not least in Germany. Comprising twenty-two chapters by international scholars, some of the topics explored include: Berkeley on evil, Voltaire and the Philosophes, John Wesley on the origins of evil, Immanuel Kant on evil, autonomy and grace, the deliverance of evil: utopia and evil, utilitarianism and evil, evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and the genealogy of evil, and evil and the nineteenth-century idealists. This volume also explores a number of other key thinkers and topics within the period. This outstanding treatment of the history of evil at the crucial and determinative inception of its key concepts will appeal to those with particular interests in the ideas of evil and good.

Author : Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630879686

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Mother Tongue Theologies by Darren J. N. Middleton Pdf

Recognizing that one-third of the world's Christians practice their faith outside Europe and North America, the fourteen essays in Mother Tongue Theologies explore how international fiction depicts Christianity's dramatic movement South and East of Jerusalem as well as North and West. Structured by geographical region, this collection captures the many ways in which people around the globe receive Christianity. It also celebrates postcolonial literature's diversity. And it highlights non-Western authors' biblical literacy, addressing how and why locally rooted Christians invoke Scripture in their pursuit of personal as well as social transformation. Featured authors include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constantine Cavafy, Scott Cairns, Chinua Achebe, Madam Afua Kuma, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Reid, Ernesto Cardenal, Helena Parente Cunha, Arundhati Roy, Mary Martha Sherwood, Marguerite Butler, R. M. Ballantyne, Rudyard Kipling, Nora Okja Keller, Amy Tan, Albert Wendt, and Louise Erdrich. Individual essayists rightly come to different conclusions about Christianity's global character. Some connect missionary work with colonialism as well as cultural imperialism, for example, and yet others accentuate how indigenous cultures amalgamate with Christianity's foreignness to produce mesmerizing, multiple identities. Differences notwithstanding, Mother Tongue Theologies delves into the moral and spiritual issues that arise out of the cut and thrust of native responses to Western Christian presence and pressure. Ultimately, this anthology suggests the reward of listening for and to such responses, particularly in literary art, will be a wider and deeper discernment of the merits and demerits of post-Western Christianity, especially for Christians living in the so-called post-Christian West.

Author : Lynn Ellen Patyk,Irina Erman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765109816

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Funny Dostoevsky by Lynn Ellen Patyk,Irina Erman Pdf

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives to bear on the Dostoevskian light side. Funny Dostoevksy demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. The authors go beyond the more traditional categories of humor, such as satire, parody, and the carnivalesque, to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky. These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment, the affective turn and hilarious (and deadly) impatience in Demons, and ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot. The authors – (coincidentally?) all women, including some of the most established scholars in the field alongside up-and-comers – address gender and the marginalization of comedy, culminating in a chapter on Dostoevsky's "funny and furious" women, and explore the intersections of gender and humor in literary and culture studies. Funny Dostoevksy applies some of the latest findings on humor and laughter to his writing, while comparative chapters bring Dostoevsky's humor into conjunction with other popular works, such as Chaplin's Modern Times and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Written with a verve and wit that Dostoevsky would appreciate, this boldly original volume illuminates how humor and comedy in his works operate as vehicles of deconstruction, pleasure, play, and transcendence.

Author : René Wellek
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789126242

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Dostoevsky by René Wellek Pdf

First published in 1962, the present volume is a collection of critical essays on selected works by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), the famous 19th century Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Critical evaluation of Fyodor Dostoevsky has been marked by sharp and violently bitter extremes. René Wellek has assembled a wide spectrum of these varied critical attitudes toward the works of the great Russian “tragedian of ideas.” Dostoevsky’s work is seen from psychoanalytical, existential, theological, and Marxist points of view. Professor Wellek’s introduction sketches the history of Dostoevsky criticism and influence in all main countries—a task never before attempted. The essays in this collection are: PHILIP RAHV—Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment MURRAY KRIEGER—Dostoevsky’s “Idiot”: The Curse of Saintliness IRVING HOWE—Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation ELISEO VIVAS—The Two Dimensions of Reality in The Brothers Karamazov D. H. LAWRENCE—Preface to Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” SIGMUND FREUD—Dostoevsky and Parricide GEORG LUKÁCS—Dostoevsky DMITRI CHIZHEVSKY—The Theme of the Double in Dostoevsky V. V. ZENKOVSKY—Dostoevsky’s Religious and Philosophical Views DEREK TRAVERSI—Dostoevsky