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Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a full acount of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii

Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Contributors examines topics such as Dostoevskii's relation to folk literature, money, religion, the family and science. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.

Dostoevsky's The Devils
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Dostoevsky's The Devils

The most openly political of Dostoevsky's four major novels, The Devils has left literary scholars intrigued with its difficult narrative structure which veers back and forth between first and third person, and fascinated by the political overtones and social commentary it includes. For these reasons, The Devils often anchors courses on Dostoevsky's works. This critical companion contains essays that shed light on both the tricky literary structure of the novel as well as its social and political components.

Transcendent Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Transcendent Love

In Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic, Leonard G. Friesen ranges widely across Dostoevsky's stories, novels, journalism, notebooks, and correspondence to demonstrate how Dostoevsky engaged with ethical issues in his times and how those same issues continue to be relevant to today's ethical debates. Friesen contends that the Russian ethical voice, in particular Dostoevsky's voice, deserves careful consideration in an increasingly global discussion of moral philosophy and the ethical life. Friesen challenges the view that contemporary liberalism provides a religiously neutral foundation for a global ethic. He argues instead that Dostoevsky has much to offer when it...

A Devil's Vaudeville
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

A Devil's Vaudeville

A study of the 'demonic markers' that run throughout Dostoevsky's fiction, this also explores the narrative and generic implications of the way Dostoevsky inscribed the demonic in his fictional works - implications that point to a new understanding of familiar concepts in the work of this Russian master.

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. The book includes a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.

Fedor Dostoevsky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Fedor Dostoevsky

Presents the life and works of Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky. Includes a chronology.

The Idiot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 692

The Idiot

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.

Nightmare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Nightmare

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary experiments to today’s culture of nightmare consumption.

The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov

Belknap (Slavic languages, Columbia U.) traces Dostoevsky's last, great novel to its sources, exploring how the author consciously transformed his experience and his readings to construct the work. It is both a lucid analysis of a complex and difficult text and an inquiry into the process of literary creation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. P