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First Words: On Dostoevsky’s Introductions

By Lewis Bagby

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1618114824, 9781618114822
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9646329 bytes)
Series
The Unknown Nineteenth Century
Pages
222\221
Time added
2017-01-29 12:28:07
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Description

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever attempts to call his readers’ attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky’s introductions. Using Genette’s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin’s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky’s first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky’s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.

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