Dostoevskii's overcoat : influence, comparison, and transposition / edited by Joe Andrew and Robert Reid ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrew, Joe.

Reid, Robert.

Bergshoeff, Aart Jan.

Series:

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 58.

Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics ; Volume 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Congresses.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Influence--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most famous quotations in the history of Russian literature is Fedor Dostoevskii’s alleged assertion that ‘We have all come out from underneath Gogol’s Overcoat ’. Even if Dostoevskii never said this, there is a great deal of truth in the comment. Gogol certainly was a profound influence on his work, as were many others. Part of this book’s project is to locate Dostoevskii in relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries. However, the primary aim is to turn the oft-quoted apocryphal comment on its head, to see the profound influence Dostoevskii had on the lives, work and thought of his contemporaries and successors. This influence extends far beyond Russia and beyond literature. Dostoevskii may be seen as the single greatest influence on the sensibilities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To a greater or lesser extent those concerned with the creative arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have all come out from under Dostoevskii’s ‘Overcoat’.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Dostoevskii’s Overcoat / Joe Andrew

Dostoevskii’s Hermeneutic Autotextuality: The Meek Girl and The Idiot / Radosvet Kolarov

Dostoevskii as Zuboskalov: the Case of How Dangerous It Is to Succumb to Ambitious Dreams / Michael Pursglove

Mirroring the World of the Novel: Poetry in Humiliated and Insulted / Eric de Haard

A Kiss from Turgenev / Richard Freeborn

Shkliarevskii and Russian Detective Fiction: the Influence of Dostoevskii / Claire Whitehead

Pushkin as a Cultural Myth: Dostoevskii’s Pushkin Speech and Its Legacy in Russian Modernism / Alexandra Smith

Andrei Belyi and Dostoevskii: from Demons to The Silver Dove / Michael Basker

A New Kind of Brotherhood: Dostoevskii, Suslova and Rozanov / Henrietta Mondry

Dostoevskii as Seen by Dmitrii Merezhkovskii / Andrzej Dudek

Orhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevski / Neil Cornwell

To stage or not to stage? Adapting Dostoevskii’s Novels / Cynthia Marsh

Narrators from Underground / Deborah A. Martinsen

The Grand Inquisitor Scene in Dystopian Literature and Film / Robert Reid

The Idiocy of Compassion: Akira Kurosawa’s Tale of Prince Myshkin / Andrea Hacker

Bresson and Dostoevskii: Crimes and Punishments / Olga Peters Hasty

Crime and Punishment as a Comic Book / Irina Makoveeva.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 4, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1041-1

OCLC:

882779104

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210416 DOI