Dostoevsky and the Russian People
- Author: Linda Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: March 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521188753
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Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky's work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is a comprehensive study of the people and folklore in his art. Linda Ivanits investigates the integration of Dostoevsky's religious ideas and his use of folklore in his major fiction. She surveys the shifts in Dostoevsky's thinking about the Russian people throughout his life and offers comprehensive studies of the people and folklore in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov. This important study will illuminate this unexplored aspect of his work, and will be of great interest to scholars and students of Russian and of comparative literature.
Read more- Was the first full-length study of the central role folklore and popular culture played in Dostoevsky's work
- Includes detailed readings of his major novels including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
- Will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian and comparative literature, and of folklore in literary studies
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521188753
- length: 270 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the people in Dostoevsky's art and thought
1. The face of the people 1821–65
2. The world of the people in Crime and Punishment
3. The Idiot: where have all the people gone?
4. Fumbling toward Holy Russia in The Devils
5. Back in Russia: the face of the people 1871–7
6. The Brothers Karamazov: Christ walks the Russian Land
Conclusion: Dostoevsky and the people
Notes
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Index.
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