First words : on Dostoevsky's introductions / Lewis Bagby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagby, Lewis, 1944- author.

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Unknown nineteenth century.

The unknown nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Prefaces--History and criticism.

Prefaces.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and "A Gentle Creature." Despite his clever attempts to call his readers' attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky's introductions. Using Genette's typology of prefaces and Bakhtin's notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky's first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky's ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. Model Prefaces from Russian Literature

CHAPTER TWO. Dostoevsky's Initial Post- Siberian Work

CHAPTER THREE. Playing with Authorial Identities

CHAPTER 4. Monsters Roam the Text

CHAPTER 5. Monsters Roam the Text

CHAPTER 6. Anxious to the End

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781618116819

1618116819

9781618114839

1618114832

OCLC:

1135586924

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access