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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Dostoevsky"”.
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Murmurs of Revolution: Mythical Subversion in Dostoevsky
… which is why I analyze three of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels to establish a template: <em>Notes From the Underground</em>, <em>The Idiot</em>, and <em>Demons</em>. With help from Mikhail Bakhtin’s linguistic analysis of Dostoevsky, I chart how each novel feeds into the next towards …
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Narrative Theodicy with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Barth
… thesis, which brings into dialogue Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov and Karl Barth’s systematic Christology in Church Dogmatics IV/1, attempts an alternative, constructive approach to theodicy that counters the primarily theoretical theodicies in the philosophy of religion …
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Between nihilism and transcendence : Albert Camus' dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
This dissertation examines the impact of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche on the development of Albert Camus’ political philosophy. The innovation of the present study is in the attempt to offer a substantive examination of Camus’ dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. To the extent that …
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Ideal motives : self-perfection and self-knowledge in the work of Dostoevsky.
I offer a read ing of Dostoevsky's eth ical philosophy, Jrawing on his fiction and non-fiction work. I argue that coJ1cepts of human oalure and flouri shing are central to Dostoevsky's ethical thought ~d underpin his argum entative strategy in the fiction. ln Part I, l set oul Dostoevsky's ethical …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… issues of authority in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor, using René Girard's theory of mimesis. O'Connor and Dostoevsky recognize the rejection of divine authority as the central religious problem of the modern world. Though their continents and centuries differ, the two …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov: Image of a Modern Man
As a novelist, Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky portrays his characters skillfully in the play of Rem- brandtesque lighting. Like Rembrandt, Dostoevsky focuses hie attention on the dark side of man, and the only light that is visible comes from within the depths of man himself. When Dostoevsky …
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… the nature of faith presented in the works of Dostoevsky. Adopting Bakhtin’s polyphonic approach, Williams sees the need for an on-going conversation, one that argues for the equality of voices within a conversation, one that resists the impulse toward closure and one that resists the impulse …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… influenced by, among others, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, and, especially, James Joyce, Kerouac used the influence of his predecessors to formulate his own style of writing-spontaneous prose. The critics who label Kerouac as a cultural icon akin to James Dean …
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"Numerological Code in Dostoevsky's ""Crime and Punishment"
… number 7, which serves as evidence of Dostoevsky's deliberate use of numerological codes throughout his works. The chapters that follow are devoted to an analysis of Crime and Punishment, in which certain numbers are repeated throughout the text. These repetitions are not random, they …
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'Designing its own shadow' – reading Ann Quin
… to Sartre, Jane Harrison to William Burroughs, Dostoevsky to Alain Renais – reveals how Quin’s writing responds to, interrogates, encompasses and transcends these. Where relevant, the thesis is also informed and extended by a more theoretical approach. Indeed, my distinctive methodological …
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Stellvertretung as Vicarious Suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… Georges Bernanos, Reinhold Schneider and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Each of these writers features vicarious suffering, or its conceptual equivalent, as an important motif. According to Bonhoeffer Christian discipleship is the action of vicarious suffering (Stellvertretung) and of Verantwortung …
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The emergence of literary ethnography in the Russian Empire: from the far east to the pale of settlement, 1845-1917
… Russian Jewish writers and ethnographers. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Semyon An-sky wrote fiction in the genre of literary ethnography. This genre encompasses discursive practices and narrative strategies in the analysis of the different peoples of the Russian …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… Herman Melville, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. During the course of this study I consider various ideas applied by the authors about the abyssal limits and what they consist of. These include considerations on reason, society, morality …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is often retrospectively imported into analyses of nineteenth-century literary texts. In contrast, the author of …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
… countryside, three late realist novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons (1872), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlevs (1875-1881), and Lev Tolstoy's Resurrection (1899), used the grotesque to cast a negative look at that same world. I base my definition of the grotesque on studies by Mikhail …
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The Deconstruction of Hell: A History of the Resignatio ad Infernum Tradition
… shows the resignatio tradition returning, via Dostoevsky, to the postmodern scene through the work of Levinas, Derrida, and especially Hélène Cixous. Finally, in a concluding chapter, I argue that this tradition, though residing until the twentieth century primarily in a theological register, …
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HIV: a biopsychosocial context
… has accumulated during the first half." Fyodor Dostoevsky "Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own." Soren Kierkegaard This research has attempted to get an insight into the phenomenon of growing older with HIV. It attends the experience of the first aging HIV cohort and …
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Transgressive women and bad mothers: Alternatives to traditional maternity in the Russian literary context
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
… and Punishment</em> is one in which faith-in Dostoevsky's case, the Christian faith-becomes the focal point for understanding the novel as a coherent text, especially in regard to Raskolnikov's fragmentary conversion to that faith. Even at the end of the novel, Raskolnikov is more on the …
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