Dostoevsky and the Christian tradition / edited by George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pattison, George, 1950- editor.

Thompson, Diane Oenning, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Russian literature.

Cambridge studies in Russian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Religion.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Dostoevsky & the Christian Tradition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dostoevsky is one of Russia's greatest novelists and a major influence in modern debates about religion, both in Russia and the West. This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in his work. The aim of this collection is not to abstract Dostoevsky's religious 'teaching' from his literary works, but to explore the interaction between his Christian faith and his writing. The essays cover such topics as temptation, grace and law, Dostoevsky's use of the gospels and hagiography, Trinitarianism, and the Russian tradition of the veneration of icons, as well as reading aloud, and dialogism. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, there are also discussions of lesser-known works such as The Landlady and A Little Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree.

Contents:

Introduction : Reading Dostoevsky religiously / George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson

Dostoevsky and the kenotic tradition / Margaret Ziolkowski

Dostoevsky's markings in the Gospel according to St John / Irina Kirillova

Icons in Dostoevsky's works / Sophie Ollivier

Problems of the biblical word in Dostoevsky's poetics / Diane Oenning Thompson

Dostoevsky in the prism of the orthodox semiosphere / Avril Pyman

The categories of Law and Grace in Dostoevsky's poetics / Ivan Esaulov

The Brothers Karamazov as trinitarian theology / David S. Cunningham

Reading and incarnation in Dostoevsky / Eric J. Ziolkowski

Towards an iconography of Crime and punishment / Antony Johae

Pavel Smerdyakov and Ivan Karamazov : the problem of temptation / Vladimir Kantor

Beyond the will : humiliation as Christian necessity in Crime and punishment / Henry M.W. Russell

Freedom's dangerous dialogue : reading Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard together / George Pattison.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17415-5

1-281-38389-9

9786611383893

0-511-39811-5

0-511-39894-8

0-511-40109-4

0-511-39661-9

0-511-58594-2

0-511-39734-8

OCLC:

476158276