Dostoevsky in Context (Literature in Context) - Softcover

Martinsen, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108712738 ISBN 13: 9781108712736

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81), set within social, political, cultural and literary contexts.

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Reseña del editor:

This volume explores the Russia where the great writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81), was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but also on the Russian life that he and his contemporaries experienced: on social practices and historical developments, political and cultural institutions, religious beliefs, ideological trends, artistic conventions and literary genres. Chapters by leading scholars illuminate this broad context, offer insights into Dostoevsky's reflections on his age, and examine the expression of those reflections in his writing. Each chapter investigates a specific context and suggests how we might understand Dostoevsky in relation to it. Since Russia took so much from Western Europe throughout the imperial period, the volume also locates the Russian experience within the context of Western thought and practices, thereby offering a multidimensional view of the unfolding drama of Russia versus the West in the nineteenth century.

Biografía del autor:

Deborah A. Martinsen is Associate Dean of Alumni Education and Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. She is author of Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure (2003; in Russian 2011), editor of Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (1997), and co-editor of Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (with Cathy Popkin and Irina Reyfman, 2014).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1108712738
• ISBN 13: 9781108712736
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354