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Dostoevskii's overcoat : influence, comparison, and transposition
One of the most famous quotations in the history of Russian literature is Fedor Dostoevskii's alleged assertion that 'We have all come out from underneath Gogol's Overcoat'. Even if Dostoevskii never said this, there is a great deal of truth in the comment. Gogol certainly was a profound influence on his work, as were many others. Part of this book's project is to locate Dostoevskii in relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries. However, the primary aim is to turn the oft-quoted apocryphal comment on its head, to see the profound influence Dostoevskii had on the lives, work and thought of his contemporaries and successors. This influence extends far beyond Russia and beyond literature. Dostoevskii may be seen as the single greatest influence on the sensibilities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To a greater or lesser extent those concerned with the creative arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have all come out from under Dostoevskii's 'Overcoat'.
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A Dostoevskii Companion
The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor
Dostoevskii continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first
century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevskii's Russia.
A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help
students and readers navigate the writer's fiction and his world,
to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in
which Dostoevskii lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single
definitive view of the author, the book contains a collection of
documents from Dostoevskii's own time (excerpts from his letters,
his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as
well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevskii
from the contemporary academy. The volume equips readers with a
deeper understanding of Dostoevskii's world and his writing,
offering new paths and directions for interpreting his writing.
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Dostoevsky the thinker
For all his distance from philosophy, Dostoyevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. Drawing on his novels, essays, letters and notebooks, this volume examines Dostoyevsky's philosophical thought.
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Western Law, Russian Justice
Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel,
The Brothers Karamazov . He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, both in his journalism and his fiction, contextualizing his portrayal of trials and trial participants (lawyers, jurors, defendants, judges) in the political, social, and ideological milieu of his time. Further, the author presents Dostoevsky's critique in terms of the main notions of the critical legal studies movement in the United States, showing how, over one hundred and twenty years ago, Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has been confronting over the past two decades. This book should appeal to anyone with an interest in Russian literature, Russian history and culture, legal studies, law and literature, narratology, or metafiction and literary theory.
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