... Almost no word is without its intense sideward glance at someone else’s word. —Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics In Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Mikhail Bakhtin develops the notion of the threshold as a space in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work, and Rus- sian...

... Verses . New York : Viking . Rushdie Salman . (1991) 1992 . Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991 . New York : Penguin . Joseph Frank Allen Tate Fyodor Dostoevsky spatial form Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 ...

... of inequality and poverty, but also of human life overall. Fyodor Dostoevsky had attacked this same set of beliefs in Notes from Underground, nearly a century earlier. For Dostoevsky, the corrective lay in the Russian people and their Christianity. Trilling, however, as a secular American Jew, proposed...

..., it was not, in the main, from the writers he considered great—Tolstoy, or Fyodor Dostoevsky, or Charles Dickens—but from Street and Smith’s Detective Story Magazine. See Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (London: Vintage, 1991), 422–23. 21. Derek Parfit, On What Matters, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford...

... description is that this volume is about the presence and influence of an imagined “Russia” gleaned through various writers, such as Lev Mechnikov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Father Nikolai of Japan, and the interaction of heterogeneous people. Russians include Orthodox missionaries, dissidents...