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...Chloë Kitzinger Abstract This article argues that the early twentieth-century Dostoevsky criticism of Russian Symbolist thinkers, roughly contemporaneous with Henry James's New York Edition prefaces, laid the foundation for an alternative line of novel theory, engaged not with the novel's claim...

...Jefferson J. A. Gatrall Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of authors across Europe and the United States—including Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, and Rainer Maria Rilke—gave fictional form to the figure of Jesus...

... 26 ( 2005 ): 613 –36. Marais , Michael . “Death and the Space of the Response to the Other in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg.” J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual . Ed. Jane Poyner. Athens: Ohio UP, 2006 . 83 –99. Ruttenburg , Nancy . “Dostoevsky’s...

... that defines the novel is that of instantiation itself. In the novel, unlike other forms, representation (of ideas, characters, or viewpoints) is not a technical problem but an ethical one. Mikhail Bakhtin makes a similar distinction when, in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, he talks about...

... for the title of the nineteenth-century Russian novel that has had the greatest influence on Russian society, it is likely that a non-Russian would choose among the books of the mighty triumvirate—Turgenev, Tolstoy, or Dostoevsky: Fathers and Sons? War and Peace? Crime and Punishment? These would cer...

... humaine is surely relevant on that theme. To be sure, Walton does reach back to Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov when discussing the connection between epilepsy and moral deviancy. In the context of Freud's essay on Dostoevsky, we are provided with a summary of the murder in The Brothers Karamazov...

..., and the early story, “Guide to Berlin.” The book closes “with a reading of Dostoevsky’s ‘The Double’ [the only work by Dostoevsky that Nabokov positively acknowledged] that heuristically inquires what happens when the interpretive practices developed in close reading of Nabokov are applied to other...

... on Diary of a Bad Year, with its dis- persed authorship and narrative structure. One could make the case from Summertime, too, an autre-biography in which it is only the subject’s interlocutors who speak. In this aspect of his fiction, Coetzee is also following Dostoevsky as described by Bakhtin...

... . “ The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism .” Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . Ed. Emerson Caryl and Holquist Michael . Trans. McGee Vern . Austin : U of Texas P , 1986 . 10 – 59 . Bakhtin Mikhail . Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics . Ed. and trans...

... : U of Texas P , 1981 . ———. The Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Ed. and trans. Emerson Caryl . Intro. Booth Wayne C. . Vol. 8 of Theory and History of Literature . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2003 . Bellow Saul . Letters . Ed. Taylor Benjamin . New York...

... if his desire to nail down a direct influence can generate its own archival fever. The assertion, for example, on the basis of a passage from Gide's book on Dostoevsky cited in the 1930 lectures, that “it was in fact Dostoevsky's ‘stratification’ [of human personality] that provided Beckett with [his...

... in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground : “The Underground monologue projects a vacuum onto the surrounding world by referring to social relations that could exist but do not, addressing listeners who might hear but do not . . . ” (11). Like Erlich, Buchholz ties this shift to the alienating effects...

... Authorship (1998) and Dostoevsky’s Democracy (2008), and past director of the Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford. kent puckett is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2008...

... Capital . Ed. Althusser Louis Balibar Étienne . Trans. Brewster Ben . London : Verso , 2009 . 11 – 75 . Bakhtin Mikhail . The Dialogic Imagination . Trans. Emerson Caryl Holquist Michael . Austin : U of Texas P , 1981 . ———. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics...

... at Montclair State University. He is coeditor of Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity and a special issue of the journal arcadia. He has published articles on Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoevsky and is currently working on a book about representations of the historical Jesus...

..., the evaluation of the form has to exclude or devalue certain works and tendencies. The Theory of the Novel concludes with a reflection on Dostoevsky as a limit-case which cannot be comprehended within Luk6csrs own conception of modernity and the novel: "he, and the form he created, lie outside the scope...

... to the XIV PEN International Congress. XIV International Congress of the P.E.N. Clubs—Speeches and Discussions , 1936. Folder 26. Box 624. PEN Collection. Harry Ransom Center. U of Texas at Austin. 191 – 93 . Zweig Stefan . Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Three Masters . Vol. 1 of Master Builders...

... the novel, as a variety of “great epic,” is “a form bound to the historical moment,” Lukács concludes that “Dostoevsky did not write novels” (152). Theory of the Novel uses Hegel to mobilize Kantian formalism into a historical narrative. However thin the history, nonetheless, this theory does...

... . Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics . Ed. and trans. Emerson Caryl . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2009 . Balzac Honoré de . Lost Illusions . Trans. and intro. Hunt Herbert J. . London : Penguin , 2004 . Barthes Roland . “ The Reality Effect .” The Rustle of Language...

... with these readings exposing the contradictions of liberalism. There is a long history of criticizing liberalism. Freud and Nietzsche challenged Millian progressivism with unconscious motivation and the critical transvaluation of liberal values. Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor is probably the greatest fictional...