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The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics

By Liza Knapp

Book information

Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0810113724
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20537023 bytes)
Pages
328\328
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2019-08-26 14:49:22

Description

Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Note on Translation and Transliteration......Page 12 Chapter One. Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Metaphysics of Inertia......Page 14 Chapter Two. The Force of Inertia: Dostoevsky’s Confessional Heroes and the “Tragedy of the Underground”......Page 28 Chapter Three. The Resurrection from Inertia in Crime And Punishment......Page 57 Chapter Four. The Verdict of Death in The Idiot......Page 79 Chapter Five. The Dead Machine of European Civilization: Inertia in The Devils......Page 115 Chapter Six. Death by Ice: The Poetics of Entropy in The Adolescent......Page 144 Chapter Seven. The Dimensions of Providence in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 185 Chapter Eight. Afterword: “Except a Com of Wheat”......Page 230 Notes......Page 235 Select Bibliography......Page 307 Index......Page 320

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