Dostoevsky and Suicide
Author | : N. N. Shneidman |
Publisher | : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : N. N. Shneidman |
Publisher | : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John F. Desmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813231272 |
"A study of the phenomenon of suicide, both actual and spiritual, in the major fictional works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy, drawing lines of continuity between the two authors and noting their differences. In the epilogue, Desmond offers a Christian counter-vision to the 'suicidal' ethos he has documented"--
Author | : Amy D. Ronner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793607826 |
In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings of Dostoevsky’s major works, including Notes from The House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronner provides an exegesis of how Dostoevsky’s implicit awareness of fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic modes of self-destruction helped shape not only his philosophy, but also his craft as a writer. In this study, Ronner contributes to the field of suicidology by anatomizing both self-destructive behavior and suicidal ideation while offering ways to think about prevention. But most expansively, Ronner tackles the formidable task of forging a ligature between artistic creation and the pluripresent social fact of self-annihilation.
Author | : Irina Paperno |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
ISBN | : 9780801484254 |
Analyzing a variety of sources--medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides--Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s-1880s.
Author | : Irina Paperno |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501724606 |
In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centuries, philosophers and writers, journalists and scientists have attempted to endow this act with meaning. In the nineteenth century, and especially in Russia, suicide became the focus for discussion of such issues as the immortality of the soul, free will and determinism, the physical and the spiritual, the individual and the social. Analyzing a variety of sources—medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides—Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s–1880s, when suicide was at the center of public attention.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This societal and political satire tells the story of a fictitious city plunging into chaos as it becomes the crucial point of an attempted revolution.
Author | : Joseph Frank |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400833418 |
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language—and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2,500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works—from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
Author | : Daniel Bures |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Yuri Corrigan |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2017-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081013571X |
Dostoevsky was hostile to the notion of individual autonomy, and yet, throughout his life and work, he vigorously advocated the freedom and inviolability of the self. This ambivalence has animated his diverse and often self-contradictory legacy: as precursor of psychoanalysis, forefather of existentialism, postmodernist avant la lettre, religious traditionalist, and Romantic mystic. Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the “mystery” of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by characters seeking to lose themselves within larger collective selves, Yuri Corrigan approaches the fictional works as a continuous experimental canvas on which Dostoevsky explored the problem of selfhood through recurring symbolic and narrative paradigms. Presenting new readings of such works as The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, Corrigan tells the story of Dostoevsky’s career-long journey to overcome the pathology of collectivism by discovering a passage into the wounded, embattled, forbidding, revelatory landscape of the psyche. Corrigan’s argument offers a fundamental shift in theories about Dostoevsky's work and will be of great interest to scholars of Russian literature, as well as to readers interested in the prehistory of psychoanalysis and trauma studies and in theories of selfhood and their cultural sources.
Author | : Paolo Stellino |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-12-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030539377 |
This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein - their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.