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The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s - Couverture souple

Holland, Kate

 
9780810144491: The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s
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ISBN 10 : 0810144492 ISBN 13 : 9780810144491
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time, he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire belief in social and spiritual reintegration, and to this end he returned to old forms and structures that were already becoming outmoded.

In thoughtful readings of Demons, The Adolescent, A Writer’s Diary, and The Brothers Karamazov, Holland delineates Dostoevsky’s struggle to adapt a genre to the reality of the present, with all its upheavals, while maintaining a utopian vision of Russia’s future mission.

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À propos de l'auteur

KATE HOLLAND is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810144492
ISBN 13 
9780810144491
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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