Unconscious Structure in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
Author | : Elizabeth Carville Dalton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Carville Dalton |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Dalton |
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Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Dalton |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400867991 |
Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of the theory of psychoanalytic criticism and a penetrating study of Dostoevsky's great novel, The Idiot. In answering the objections to psychoanalytic criticism, she contends that the method—if properly understood—can be used without falling into reductionism and without recourse to the author's biography. She then deals with such crucial issues as the connections between dreams and literary creation, the role of repression in art, the relationship between creativity and psychopathology, and the unconscious aspects of language. Demonstrating this approach in a radical and comprehensive interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel, the author shows how the enigmatic character of Prince Myshkin, his epilepsy, his mystical insights, his love of Nastasya, and his mysterious involvement with her murderer are all related in a complex pattern of unconscious conflict and fantasy derived from the most primitive and powerful motifs of psychic life. Professor Dalton's pursuit of unconscious connections into virtually every detail of the novel, accounting for subplots, minor characters, and even for the puzzling flaws in the narrative, fully establishes the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of literature. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Liza Knapp |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810115330 |
This book is designed to guide readers through Dostoevsky's The Idiot, first published in 1869 and generally considered to be his most mysterious and confusing work.
Author | : Sarah Young |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 184331374X |
In considering Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot', a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah Young addresses problems in the novel unresolved by previous interpretations, and in doing so fills a significant gap in Dostoevsky studies. 'Dostoevsky's The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative' provides an innovative theoretical framework for an analysis that integrates structural and narratological considerations with thematic (religious and ethical) aspects, by focusing on the characters' interactivity as the most fundamental level on which the ethical systems of the novel are enacted. It examines the questions of what ethical bases are put forward by the novel, what faith-issues and philosophical world-views they derive from, and how, in terms of structuring and narration rather than simply thematically, they are presented in the novel.
Author | : Lynn Ellen Patyk |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2023-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081014574X |
Confronting Bakhtin’s formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers—and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approach Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art. Challenging, revising, and expanding on Mikhail Bakhtin’s foundational analysis in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Patyk demonstrates that provocation is the moving mover of Dostoevsky’s poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and capture our attention. Yet the full scope of Dostoevsky’s provocative authorial activity can only be grasped alongside an understanding of his key themes, which both probed and exploited the most divisive conflicts of his era. The ultimate stakes of such friction are, for him, nothing less than moral responsibility and the truth of identity. Sober and strikingly original, compassionate but not uncritical, Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs exposes the charged current in the wiring of our modern selves. In an economy of attention and its spoils, provocation is an inexhaustibly renewable and often toxic resource.
Author | : J. Tambling |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995-09-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230378323 |
In a radical reassessment of one of the greatest writers of all time, Dickens, Violence and the Modern State draws on the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, in addition to Julia Kristeva and Edward Said, to situate Dickens within the discourses circulating within his society - in particular those associated with modernity. Focussing on Dickens's novels written after 1848, his relationship to modernity can be seen in his treatment of violence, seen in two forms in his writing: that of the state (in the rationalising powers of Victorian bourgeois modernisation), and physical violence, as portrayed in Dickens's criminals and interest in masochism and corpses.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1624 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Authors, Russian |
ISBN | : 1438115253 |
Presents a biography the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky along with critical views of his work.
Author | : Neil Cornwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1020 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134260776 |
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.