Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

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U of Minnesota Press, 2013 M11 30 - 384 páginas

This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.

 

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Dostoevskys Polyphonic Novel and Its Treatment in Critical Literature
5
The Hero and the Position of the Author with Regard to the Hero in Dostoevskys Art
47
The Idea in Dostoevsky
78
Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevskys Works
101
Discourse in Dostoevsky
181
ii The Heros Monologic Discourse and Narrational Discourse in Dostoevskys Short Novels
204
iii The Heros Discourse and Narrative Discourse in Dostoevsky
237
iv Dialogue in Dostoevsky
251
Conclusion
270
Three Fragments from the 1929 Edition Problems of Dostoevskys Art
275
Toward a Reworking of the Dostoevsky Book 1961
283
Glossary of Proper Names and Works
305
Index
325
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Página 6 - A plurality of independent and unmerged voices and consciousnesses, a genuine polyphony of fully valid voices is in fact the chief characteristic of Dostoevsky's novels.
Página xxxix - Nothing conclusive has yet taken place in the world, the ultimate word of the world and about the world has not yet been spoken, the world is open and free, everything is still in the future and will always be in the future...
Página 18 - Not a single element of the work is structured from the point of view of a nonparticipating "third person." In the novel itself, nonparticipating "third persons" are not represented in any way.

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Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Wayne C. Booth is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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