Dostoevsky at 200

The Novel in Modernity

Katherine Bowers, Kate Holland (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0863-0 (ISBN)

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Reconsidering Dostoevsky’s legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.

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.

Contributors 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, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky’s works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of Russian literature but also to those curious about 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.

Katherine Bowers is an associate professor in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. Kate Holland is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity
Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland

1. The Poetics of the Slap: Dostoevsky’s Disintegrating Duel Plot
Kate Holland

2. Dostoevsky and the Missing Marriage Plot
Anna A. Berman

3. The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky’s Businesswomen
Vadim Shneyder

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

5. Dostoevsky, Sechenov, and the Reflexes of the Brain: Toward a Stylistic Genealogy of Notes from Underground
Alexey Vdovin

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

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

8. The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment
Greta Matzner-Gore

9. Illegitimacies of the Novel: Characterization in The Adolescent
Chloë Kitzinger

10. Sovereignty and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s Political Theology
Ilya Kliger

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2021
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 235 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-0863-8 / 1487508638
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0863-0 / 9781487508630
Zustand	Neuware