Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin: Readings in Dostoyevsky's Fantastic Realism - Rilegato

Jones, Malcolm V.

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ISBN 10: 0521384230 ISBN 13: 9780521384230

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Riassunto

Malcolm Jones, the author of an earlier, widely read book on Dostoyevsky, here approaches his subject afresh in the light of recent developments in Dostoyevsky studies and in critical theory. He takes as his starting point the vexed question of Dostoyevsky's 'fantastic realism', which he attempts to redefine. 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, Professor Jones illustrates aspects of their multivoicedness. In Part 1, he concentrates on the internal, emotional and intellectual, reversals of 'the underground'. In Part 2, he focuses on the disruptive and subversive aspects of the relationships between characters and between text and reader. In Part 3 he examines textual multivoicedness in its diachronic aspect, showing some of the ways in which Dostoyevsky's texts echo and exploit the voices of precursors.

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Recensione:

"...Jones carves out a valuable and provocative place for Dostoyevsky within modernity's general rejections of historical rationalism. The result is clearly fertile ground for newer critical concepts through which to reread Dostoevsky." Roger Anderson, Russian Review

Descrizione del libro:

Recent developments in critical theory form the basis for this new study of Dostoyevsky. 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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521384230
• ISBN 13: 9780521384230
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240