Dostoevsky at 200 : the novel in modernity / edited by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowers, Katherine.

Contributor:

Bowers, Katherine, editor.

Holland, Kate, editor.

University of Toronto. Library, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Civilization, Modern, in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)

Other Title:

Dostoevsky at 200

Place of Publication:

2021.

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer's art--specifically the tension between experience and formal representation--as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky's works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives. Contributions situate Dostoevsky's formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky's particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, the chapters that comprise this volume ask how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky's works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not just to readers and scholars of Russian literature, but also to those interested in the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevsky's contribution to the novel as a form. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Poetics of the Slap: Dostoevsky's Disintegrating Duel Plot / Kate Holland

Dostoevsky and the (Missing) Marriage Plot / Anna A. Berman

The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky's Businesswomen / Vadim Shneyder

Allegories of the Material World: Dostoevsky and Nineteenth-Century Science / Melissa Frazier

Dostoevsky, Sechenov, and the Reflexes of the Brain: Towards a Stylistic Genealogy of Notes from Underground / Alexey Vdovin

Deferred Senses and Distanced Spaces: Embodying the Boundaries of Dostoevsky's Realism / Sarah J. Young

Under the Floorboards, Over the Door: The Gothic Corpse and Writing Fear in The Idiot / Katherine Bowers

The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment / Greta Matzner-Gore

Illegitimacies of the Novel: Characterization in Dostoevsky's The Adolescent / Chlo︠ Kitzinger

Sovereignty and the Novel: Dostoevsky's Political Theology / Ilya Kliger.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4875-3865-0

1-4875-4137-6

1-4875-3864-2

OCLC:

1337866459