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- The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
summary
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time, he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire belief in social and spiritual reintegration, and to this end he returned to old forms and structures that were already becoming outmoded.
In thoughtful readings of Demons, The Adolescent, A Writer’s Diary, and The Brothers Karamazov, Holland delineates Dostoevsky’s struggle to adapt a genre to the reality of the present, with all its upheavals, while maintaining a utopian vision of Russia’s future mission.
In thoughtful readings of Demons, The Adolescent, A Writer’s Diary, and The Brothers Karamazov, Holland delineates Dostoevsky’s struggle to adapt a genre to the reality of the present, with all its upheavals, while maintaining a utopian vision of Russia’s future mission.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- A Note on Transliteration and Sources
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-24
- Part I. Context
- Part II. Readings
- Conclusion
- pp. 189-192
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-242
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810167230
Related ISBN(s)
9780810129269, 9780810144491
MARC Record
OCLC
867740497
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013