Dostoevsky's Unfinished JourneyYale University Press, 01.01.2007 - 242 Seiten How does Dostoevsky’s fiction illuminate questions that are important to us today? What does the author have to say about memory and invention, the nature of evidence, and why we read? How did his readings of such writers as Rousseau, Maturin, and Dickens filter into his own novelistic consciousness? And what happens to a novel like Crime and Punishment when it is the subject of a classroom discussion or a conversation? In this original and wide-ranging book, Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller approaches the author’s major works from a variety of angles and offers a new set of keys to understanding Dostoevsky’s world.
Taking Dostoevsky’s own conversion as her point of departure, Miller explores themes of conversion and healing in his fiction, where spiritual and artistic transfigurations abound. She also addresses questions of literary influence, intertextuality, and the potency of what the author termed "ideas in the air.” For readers new to Dostoevsky’s writings as well as those deeply familiar with them, Miller offers lucid insights into his works and into their continuing power to engage readers in our own times.
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Dostoevsky and the Peasants | 1 |
2 Guilt Repentance and the Pursuit of Art in The House of the Dead | 22 |
The Elephant in the Garden | 44 |
Paradox Plot and Parable | 68 |
5 Transformations Exposures and Intimations of Rousseau in The Possessed | 86 |
6 Unsealing the Generic Envelope and Deciphering The Dream of a Ridiculous Man | 105 |
Reading The Brothers Karamazov through the Lens of Melmoth the Wanderer | 128 |
Adventures in Time and Space | 148 |
Some Last Words | 173 |
Notes | 189 |
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