Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters - Couverture souple

Matzner-Gore, Greta

 
9780810141971: Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters
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ISBN 10 : 0810141973 ISBN 13 : 9780810141971
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and how to distribute attention among major and minor characters. For Dostoevsky, these were much more than practical questions about novelistic craft; they were ethical questions as well.
 
Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form traces Dostoevsky's indefatigable investigations into the ethical implications of his own formal choices. Drawing on his drafts, notebooks, and writings on aesthetics, Greta Matzner-Gore argues that he wove the moral and formal questions that obsessed him into the fabric of his last three novels: Demons, The Adolescent, and The Brothers Karamazov. In so doing, Dostoevsky anticipated some of the most pressing debates taking place in the study of narrative ethics today. Can reading novels make us more compassionate and sensitive to emotional nuance? Or is the act of reading, instead, a variety of voyeurism? By placing Dostoevsky in dialogue with thinkers such as Wayne Booth, Suzanne Keen, and Alex Woloch and providing a fresh assessment of Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, this book makes an important contribution not only to Dostoevsky studies but also to the field of narrative ethics.

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À propos de l?auteur

GRETA MATZNER-GORE is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810141973
ISBN 13 
9780810141971
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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ISBN 10 :  0810141981 ISBN 13 :  9780810141988
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2020
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