Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey / Ghassan Zaqtan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaqṭān, Ghassān, Author.

Contributor:

Joudah, Fady

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does Dostoevsky's fiction illuminate questions that are important to us today? What does the author have to say about memory and invention, the nature of evidence, and why we read? How did his readings of such writers as Rousseau, Maturin, and Dickens filter into his own novelistic consciousness? And what happens to a novel like Crime and Punishment when it is the subject of a classroom discussion or a conversation? In this original and wide-ranging book, Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller approaches the author's major works from a variety of angles and offers a new set of keys to understanding Dostoevsky's world. Taking Dostoevsky's own conversion as her point of departure, Miller explores themes of conversion and healing in his fiction, where spiritual and artistic transfigurations abound. She also addresses questions of literary influence, intertextuality, and the potency of what the author termed "ideas in the air." For readers new to Dostoevsky's writings as well as those deeply familiar with them, Miller offers lucid insights into his works and into their continuing power to engage readers in our own times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Conversion, Message, Medium, Transformation: Dostoevsky and the Peasants

2. Guilt, Repentance, and the Pursuit of Art in The House of the Dead

3. Crime and Punishment in the Classroom: The Elephant in the Garden

4. The Gospel According to Dostoevsky: Paradox, Plot, and Parable

5. Transformations, Exposures, and Intimations of Rousseau in The Possessed

6. Unsealing the Generic Envelope and Deciphering ''The Dream of a Ridiculous Man''

7. Evocations and Revocations of Anxiety in the Metaphysical Novel: Reading The Brothers Karamazov through the Lens of Melmoth the Wanderer

8. Perilous Journeys to Conversion: Adventures in Time and Space

Concluding Fragments: Some Last Words

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-229) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-15015-6

OCLC:

1024045099