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Lectures on Dostoevsky (Hardcover)
Joseph Frank; Foreword by Robin Feuer Miller; Edited by Marina Brodskaya, Marguerite Frank
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R664
Discovery Miles 6 640
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From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky,
never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible
introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank
(1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,
scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published
Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an
unparalleled and accessible introduction to some of literature's
greatest masterpieces. Presented here for the first time, these
illuminating lectures begin with an introduction to Dostoevsky's
life and literary influences and go on to explore the breadth of
his career-from Poor Folk, The Double, and The House of the Dead to
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. Written in a conversational style that combines
literary analysis and cultural history, Lectures on Dostoevsky
places the novels and their key characters and scenes in a rich
context. Bringing Joseph Frank's unmatched knowledge and
understanding of Dostoevsky's life and writings to a new generation
of readers, this remarkable book will appeal to anyone seeking to
understand Dostoevsky and his times. The book also includes Frank's
favorite review of his Dostoevsky biography, "Joseph Frank's
Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace, originally published in the
Village Voice.
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Lectures on Dostoevsky (Paperback)
Joseph Frank; Foreword by Robin Feuer Miller; Edited by Marina Brodskaya, Marguerite Frank
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R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky,
never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible
introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank
(1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer,
scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published
Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an
unparalleled and accessible introduction to some of literature's
greatest masterpieces. Presented here for the first time, these
illuminating lectures begin with an introduction to Dostoevsky's
life and literary influences and go on to explore the breadth of
his career-from Poor Folk, The Double, and The House of the Dead to
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The
Brothers Karamazov. Written in a conversational style that combines
literary analysis and cultural history, Lectures on Dostoevsky
places the novels and their key characters and scenes in a rich
context. Bringing Joseph Frank's unmatched knowledge and
understanding of Dostoevsky's life and writings to a new generation
of readers, this remarkable book will appeal to anyone seeking to
understand Dostoevsky and his times. The book also includes Frank's
favorite review of his Dostoevsky biography, "Joseph Frank's
Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace, originally published in the
Village Voice.
Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have
made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own
country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to
the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these
novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European
and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the
countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy;
the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique,
gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky,
Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn,
among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and
guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This
volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but
for anyone interested in the Russian novel.
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Plots (Paperback)
Robert L. Belknap; Introduction by Robin Feuer Miller
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R665
R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
Save R95 (14%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and
passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading
experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development
of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of
narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and
strategies of representation critical details about how and when a
work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King
Lear and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Belknap explores the
spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, its brilliant
manipulation of reader frustration and involvement, and its
critical cohesion of characters. He considers Shakespeare's
transformation of dramatic plot through parallelism, conflict,
resolution, and recognition. He then follows with Dostoevsky's
development of the rhetorical and moral devices of
nineteenth-century Russian fiction, along with its epistolary and
detective genres, to embed the reader in the murder Raskolnikov
commits. Dostoevsky's reinvention of the psychological plot was
profound, and Belknap effectively challenges the idea that the
author abused causality to achieve his ideological conclusion. In a
final chapter, Belknap argues that plots teach us novelistic rather
than poetic justice. Operating according to their own logic, plots
provide us with a compelling way to see and order our world.
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of a tradition that produced some of the most influential novels of the Western world. In newly-commissioned essays by prominent scholars, the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and many others is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading, and all quotations are in English. The volume will be invaluable for students, scholars and anyone interested in the Russian novel.
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Plots (Hardcover)
Robert L. Belknap; Introduction by Robin Feuer Miller
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R786
R726
Discovery Miles 7 260
Save R60 (8%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and
passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading
experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development
of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of
narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and
strategies of representation critical details about how and when a
work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King
Lear and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Belknap explores the
spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, its brilliant
manipulation of reader frustration and involvement, and its
critical cohesion of characters. He considers Shakespeare's
transformation of dramatic plot through parallelism, conflict,
resolution, and recognition. He then follows with Dostoevsky's
development of the rhetorical and moral devices of
nineteenth-century Russian fiction, along with its epistolary and
detective genres, to embed the reader in the murder Raskolnikov
commits. Dostoevsky's reinvention of the psychological plot was
profound, and Belknap effectively challenges the idea that the
author abused causality to achieve his ideological conclusion. In a
final chapter, Belknap argues that plots teach us novelistic rather
than poetic justice. Operating according to their own logic, plots
provide us with a compelling way to see and order our world.
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 consciousness? And what happens to a
novel like Crime and Punishment when it is the subject of a
classroom discussion or a conversation? In this original and
wide-ranging book, Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller approaches
the author's major works from a variety of angles and offers a new
set of keys to understanding Dostoevsky's world. Taking
Dostoevsky's own conversion as her point of departure, Miller
explores themes of conversion and healing in his fiction, where
spiritual and artistic transfigurations abound. She also addresses
questions of literary influence, intertextuality, and the potency
of what the author termed "ideas in the air." For readers new to
Dostoevsky's writings as well as those deeply familiar with them,
Miller offers lucid insights into his works and into their
continuing power to engage readers in our own times.
"The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer
shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process.
You see the seams and joints in the novel." Gary Saul Morson,
Northwestern University"In 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the
manuscripts of the drafts for the novel, almost 4,000 pages. At
Tolstoy's home, she concentrated on a dozen books that related to
his earlier conceptions of War and Peace. She was indefatigable,
with every detail at her fingertips, and she could express fine
perceptions with something of the lucidity and measure of her
admired Jane Austen. . . . Her daughter and Donna Tussing Orwin
completed their task of editing in such a way that the book
everywhere shows that concern with thoroughly tested evidence that
above all makes it a landmark in Tolstoy studies." Times Literary
Supplement"The effectiveness of Feuer's account of the creation of
War and Peace results from her remarkably cogent and uncluttered
reading of the drafts and revisions that inform the description of
Tolstoy's creative process. Tolstoy and the Genesis of 'War and
Peace' is destined to remain a classic on the subject." Slavic
Review"Young novelists who listen to their creative writing
teachers would be better served reading Feuer's brilliant study of
the creation of War and Peace." Common KnowledgeKathryn B. Feuer
offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process
while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through
countless drafts and notes, illuminating its connection to earlier,
unpublished, novels and to crucial new sources, both European and
Russian. A novelist herself, Feuer explores the problems of
character development, narrative voice, genre, and structure that
Tolstoy ultimately resolved so brilliantly."
"The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer
shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process.
You see the seams and joints in the novel."—Gary Saul Morson,
Northwestern University"In 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the
manuscripts of the drafts for the novel, almost 4,000 pages. At
Tolstoy's home, she concentrated on a dozen books that related to
his earlier conceptions of War and Peace. She was indefatigable,
with every detail at her fingertips, and she could express fine
perceptions with something of the lucidity and measure of her
admired Jane Austen.... Her daughter and Donna Tussing Orwin
completed their task of editing in such a way that the book
everywhere shows that concern with thoroughly tested evidence that
above all makes it a landmark in Tolstoy studies."—Times Literary
Supplement"The effectiveness of Feuer's account of the creation of
War and Peace results from her remarkably cogent and uncluttered
reading of the drafts and revisions that inform the description of
Tolstoy's creative process. Tolstoy and the Genesis of 'War and
Peace' is destined to remain a classic on the subject."—Slavic
Review"Young novelists who listen to their creative writing
teachers would be better served reading Feuer's brilliant study of
the creation of War and Peace."—Common KnowledgeKathryn B. Feuer
offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process
while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through
countless drafts and notes, illuminating its connection to earlier,
unpublished, novels and to crucial new sources, both European and
Russian. A novelist herself, Feuer explores the problems of
character development, narrative voice, genre, and structure that
Tolstoy ultimately resolved so brilliantly.
When The Brothers Karamazov first appeared, it stirred the
intellectual community of Russia like no other work before or
since. Readers of all backgrounds rushed to hail Dostoevsky's
genius and his compelling novel of good and evil, and the book
later hurtled to international renown as translations appeared in
language after language. Devotees from Freud to Sartre have been
caught up by its engrossing plot of parricide, which intertwines
with numerous skillfully woven subplots. These mirror each other in
theme and structure while intricately stitching together a diverse
set of characters, who reflect the rich variety of Russian society.
The famous chapter "The Grand Inquisitor" still draws praise as a
timeless exploration of the problem of evil. In The Brothers
Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel Robin Feuer Miller alerts the reader
to the internal rhymes and resonances of Dostoevsky's complex
masterpiece and illuminates the philosophical and narrative riddles
the novelist continually presents. Her detailed textual and
stylistic analysis lays bare Dostoevsky's artistic and narrative
strategies; among the many issues studied are guilt, parent-child
relationships, and narrative techniques such as parody and comic
foreshadowing of serious themes. An original approach to this
masterwork, Miller's reading unifies seemingly disparate strands of
the novel and clearly demonstrates its brilliance.
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