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Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin: Readings in Dostoyevsky's Fantastic Realism

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521384230, 9780521384230, 0521021367, 9780521021364, 9780511519604
LCC
PG3328.Z7 R385 1990
Open Library ID
OL2227139M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5308558 bytes)
Pages
239\239
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Recent developments in critical theory form the basis for this new study of Dostoyevsky which evaluates the radical contributions to Dostoyevsky criticism made by the critic and literary theorist M.M. Bakhtin. Malcolm Jones first redefines Dostoyevsky's much-debated "fantastic realism"; accepting Bakhtin's reading of Dostoyevsky in its essentials, he seeks out its weaknesses and develops it in new directions. Taking well-known texts by Dostoyevsky in turn, Jones illustrates aspects of their multivoicedness: the emotional and intellectual turmoil suffered by individual characters in the novels; the frequent surprises that undermine the confidence of readers (and other characters) who suppose they have fully understood a character; and finally some of the ways in which Dostoyevsky's texts make use of both factual documentation and Romantic traditions of unreality.

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