Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

This valuable book includes very well-researched articles written by the scholars of the field which examine the dialogues of Dostoevky's personas from aesthetic, philosophical and religious viewpoints. It is a major contribution to the Russian literature associated with Dostoevky's name and works. Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1

Auteur

A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Svetlana Evdokimova holds PhD from Yale University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and is currently professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is the author of Pushkin s Historical Imagination (Yale University Press), Alexander Pushkin s Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity, ed. (Wisconsin University Press), and of the wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov s relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.

Texte du rabat

This volume deals with Dostoevsky s wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political, economic, and scientific discourses of his time. It includes contributions by prominent Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy.

Résumé
Provides a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. This book includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. It considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art.

Contenu

Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova I. Encounters with Science 1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russiäs Radical Youth David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson 2. Darwin s Plots, Malthus s Mighty Feast, Lamennais s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky s Lost Sheep Liza Knapp 3. Viper will eat viper : Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood Anna A. Berman 4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and Our Dostoevsky Daniel P. Todes II. Engagements with Philosophy 5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of the Meaning of Life Steven Cassedy 6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief David S. Cunningham 7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher Charles Larmore 8. If there s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful : On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov s Idea Sergei A. Kibalnik III. Questions of Aesthetics 9. Once Again about Dostoevsky s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb Robert L. Jackson 10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov Susanne Fusso 11. Dostoevsky s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation Svetlana Evdokimova IV. The Self and the Other 12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double Gary Saul Morson 13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm Yuri Corrigan 14. Dostoevsky s Angel Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov Michal Oklot 15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky s Crime and Punishment Vladimir Golstein 16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead Carol Apollonio 17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Deborah A. Martinsen 18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes Inessa Medzhibovskaya V. Intercultural Connections 19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment Donna Orwin 20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac s Binding) Olga Meerson 21. Prince Myshkin s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom Marina Kostalevsky