Challenging the Bard: Dostoevsky and Pushkin, a Study of Literary Relationship

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Author(s): Gary Rosenshield
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 331
City: Madison

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part One: Before Exile......Page 40
Chapter 1. The First Confrontation: Dostoevsky’s Poor Folk and Pushkin’s “The Stationmaster”......Page 42
Chapter 2. The Bronze Horseman and The Double: Reevaluating the Madness of the Common Man......Page 79
Chapter 3. The Miser Redone: The Transformation of Pushkin’s The Covetous Knight in Dostoevsky’s Mr. Prokharchin......Page 101
Part Two: After Exile......Page 128
Chapter Four: Gambling and Passion: Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades and Dostoevsky’s The Gambler......Page 130
Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment 1.“The Stationmaster,” The Bronze Horseman, and The Queen of Spades: The Clerk, Petersburg, and Napoleon......Page 154
Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment 2.The Covetous Knight: Power, Transgression, and Legacy......Page 195
Chapter 7: After Crime and Punishment: An Afterword on the Later Novels......Page 225
Notes......Page 242
Selected Bibliography......Page 300
Index......Page 314