Dostoevsky's unfinished journey [electronic resource] / Robin Feuer Miller.
How does Dostoevsky's fiction illuminate questions that are important to us today? What does the author have to say about memory and invention, the nature of evidence, and why we read? How did his readings of such writers as Rousseau, Maturin, and Dickens filter into his own novelistic consciou...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Conversion, message, medium, transformation : Dostoevsky and the peasants
- 2. Guilt, repentance, and the pursuit of art in The house of the dead
- 3. Crime and punishment in the classroom : the elephant in the garden
- 4. The gospel according to Dostoevsky : paradox, plot, and parable
- 5. Transformations, exposures, and intimations of Rousseau in The possessed
- 6. Unsealing the generic envelope and deciphering "The dream of a ridiculous man"
- 7. Evocations and revocations of anxiety in the metaphysical novel : reading The brothers Karamazov through the lens of Melmoth the Wanderer
- 8. Perilous journeys to conversion : adventures in time and space
- Concluding fragments : some last words
- Notes
- Index.