Critical Essays on Dostoevsky

Contents......Page 6
Robin Feuer Miller. Introduction......Page 8
Vyacheslav Ivanov. The Novel-Tragedy......Page 30
Robert L. Belknap. The Didactic Plot: The Lesson about Suffering in Poor Folk......Page 37
John Jones. The Double......Page 46
Joseph Frank. Nihilism and Notes from Underground......Page 57
Barbara F. Howard. The Rhetoric of Confession: Dostoevskij’s Notes from Underground and Rousseau’s Confessions......Page 71
Donald Fanger. Poetics of the City......Page 80
Konstantin Mochulsky. [Crime and Punishment: A Novel Tragedy in Five Acts]......Page 97
Leo Tolstoy. Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?......Page 108
Robin Feuer Miller. The Role of the Reader in the Idiot......Page 110
Arpad Kovacs. The Poetics of The Idiot: On the Problem of Dostoevsky’s Thinking about Genre......Page 123
André Gide. [Dostoevsky and the Psychology of Jealousy: Observations on The Eternal Husband]......Page 133
Irving Howe. Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation [The Possessed]......Page 142
Leonid Grossman. The Stylistics of Stavrogin’s Confession: A Study of the New Chapter of The Possessed......Page 155
Malcolm Jones. A Raw Youth: A Novel of Disorder......Page 165
James Michael Holquist. The Either/Or of Duels and Dreams: A Gentle Creature and Dream of a Ridiculous Man......Page 177
Robert Louis Jackson. The Triple Vision: "The Peasant Marey"......Page 184
Jostein Børtnes. The Function of Hagiography in Dostoevskij’s Novels......Page 195
Sven Linnér. Portrait of a Saint: Moral Ideal and/or Psychological Truth......Page 201
R. P. Blackmur. The Brothers Karamazov: The Grand Inquisitor and the Wine of Gladness......Page 212
Victor Terras. Narrative Structure in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 222
V. E. Vetlovskaia. Rhetoric and Poetics: The Affirmation and Refutation of Opinions in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov......Page 230
Gary Saul MorsonVerbal Pollution in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 241
Caryl Emerson. Prefatory Comments on "Toward a Reworking of the Dostoevsky Book"......Page 250
Mikhail Bakhtin. Toward a Reworking of the Dostoevsky Book......Page 254
Index......Page 272