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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Fyodor Dostoevsky"”.
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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 …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… Heavily 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 …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… explores 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, …
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Stellvertretung as Vicarious Suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… of 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
… two 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 …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… by 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, …
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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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HIV: a biopsychosocial context
… he 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 …
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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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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… Motamen’s White Nights (2003), adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights. It analyzes how Motamen’s film reimagines Dostoevsky’s female characters while drawing on Persian literary heritage and cinematography to foster a localized dialogue with the novella. Chapter three investigates …