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Profane challenge and Orthodox response in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment / Janet G. Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Janet G.
- Series:
- Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 52.
- Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and literature--Russia.
- Christianity and literature.
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Prestuplenie i nakazanie.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back “target readers”, young contemporary radicals, from Utilitarianism, nihilism, and Utopian Socialism. Dostoevsky framed the battle in the context of the Orthodox Church and oral tradition versus the West. He relied on knowledge of the Gospels as text received orally , forcing readers to react emotionally, not rationally, and thus undermining the very basis of his opponents’ arguments. Dostoevsky saves Raskol’nikov, underscoring the inadequacy of rational thought and reminding his readers of a heritage discarded at their peril. This volume should be of special interest to secondary and university students, as well as to readers interested in literature, particularly, in Russian literature, and Dostoevsky.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Significance of Orality and the Oral Tradition: Dostoevsky Counter-Attacks
- The Religious Symbolism of Cloth and Clothing in Crime and Punishment
- Iconic Images in Crime and Punishment: Russia’s Western Capital
- “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” in Crime and Punishment
- The Significance of Alterity or “Otherness” in Crime and Punishment: Russian Culture and Western Change
- The Epilogue Reconsidered
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 94-012-0655-4
- 1-4356-9537-2
- OCLC:
- 303492908
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401206556 DOI
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