...Nancy Ruttenburg During the transitional period between the early works of the late 1840s and production of the “great novels” in the mid-1860s, Dostoevsky confronted the problem of the Russian common people with particular urgency and immediacy. The consolations of the social theories which...

... radically different in terms of their political commitments, as the article demonstrates, meet in the space of Fyodor Dostoevsky's prose, which was an important reference point for their respective eschatological projects. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Vasily Rozanov...

...Alastair Renfrew Iurii Tynianov’s characterization of the relationship between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol as parodic, which he later develops into a broader concern with the mechanics of literary evolution, also provokes a concern with the specifically dialectical nature of the change...

...Michael Eskin Bakhtin's endorsement of literary prose—especially Dostoevsky's—on the grounds of its polyphony and his concomitant critique of poetry on the grounds of its allegedly monologic character have become commonplace in Bakhtin criticism. In this article, I reexamine this view...

... , 95 – 122 ( New York : Verso ). Bakhtin Mikhail 1975 [1946] Voprosy literatury i estetiki: Issledovaniia raznykh let ( Moscow : Khudozhestvennaia literatura ). 1984 [1963, 1929] Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics [Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo] . Edited and translated...

... in recent and contemporary fiction. His previously published work includes essays on Emily Bronte¨ and Thomas Pynchon. Kate Holland is associate professor of Russian literature in the Slavic Depart- ment at the University of Toronto. She is author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky...

... Mikhail M. 1968 Rabelais and His World . Translated by Iswolsky Helene ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press ). 1984 Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Edited and translated by Emerson Caryl ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ). Erlich Victor 1965 [1955] Russian...

... only one aspect of this intersection: the role of pain (the hurting body as the norm) in these two aesthetic economies, Shklovsky's and Bakhtin's. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1984 [1963] Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics , translated...

...- tion manuscript about the experience of the To¯hoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Robin Feuer Miller is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. Her books include Dostoevsky’s Unfinished Journey, The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel, and Dostoevsky and “The Idiot...

... version of utilitarianism and/or from its scathing critique by Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes from the Underground . Such an explanation of human behavior correlates the agent's preferences with his or her actions and their consequences and equates rationality with the choice of means most suitable...

... Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Dickens Charles 1981 [1850] David Copperfield ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Dostoevsky Fyodor 1946 [1876] “ A Gentle Spirit .” In The Short Stories...

... European society (Dickens’s paupers, Charlotte Brontë’s women) can aspire to such excellence. For the rest of us, there is only ‘‘moderate idealism’’ (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), consisting in local and tentative efforts at magnanimity. All along the way, of course, voices have been raised in protest...

... as a logic uncontainable within the world. Put another way, it preserves the scandalous dimensions of religiosity. The Schooldays of Jesus introduces the contours of the Medieval morality play through the tussle between Simón and Dimitri. This pointed allusion to a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's...

... Dostoevsky and Rabelais; however, Hirschkop emphasizes, ‘‘much of what [Bakhtin] wants a dialogical culture to achieve depends on the very kind of politics he regards as irrelevant’’ (ibid In other words, even a moderately adequate reception of Bakhtin’s writings—a reception predicated on discursive...

... Press ). Dostoevsky Fyodor 2000 [1866] Crime and Punishment , translated by Garnett Constance ( Ware, UK : Wordsworth ). Even-Zohar Itamar 1990 “Gnessin's Dialogue and Its Russian Models,” Poetics Today 11 ( 1 ): 131 – 53 . Fiorillo Christopher D...

... in the Novel.” In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays , translated by Emerson Caryl Holquist Michael , 84 – 258 ( Austin : University of Texas Press ). 1984a [1963, 1929] Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Edited and translated by Emerson Caryl ( Minneapolis : University...

...., Jr. 1967 Validity in Interpretation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Jameson, Fredric 1981 The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press). Morson, Gary Saul 1988 [1981] The Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's “Diary...

... : University of Texas Press ). Bakhtin Mikhail 1984 Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics . Edited and translated by Emerson Caryl ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ). Bakhtin Mikhail 1990 Art and Answerability . Edited by Holquist Michael...

... considers the work of several theorists who became influential after the heyday of formalism: Mikhail Bakhtin (particularly his studies of the carnivalesque in the contexts of Franc¸ois Rabelais’s and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works), Vladimir Propp (his study of the action sequence in the fairy tale...

... considers the work of several theorists who became influential after the heyday of formalism: Mikhail Bakhtin (particularly his studies of the carnivalesque in the contexts of Franc¸ois Rabelais’s and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works), Vladimir Propp (his study of the action sequence in the fairy tale...