Reawakening National Identity: Dostoevskii’s Diary of a Writer and its Impact on Russian Society

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Author(s): Raffaella Vassena
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 231
City: Bern etc.

Contents......Page 10
Part One: The Creation of a Rhetoric......Page 16
Chapter One: The Role of the Reader in Dostoevskii’s Creation......Page 18
Chapter Two: The Diary of a Writer: Author, Genre, and Reader......Page 44
Part Two: The Reactions of Russian Society......Page 82
Chapter Three: The Press Debate......Page 84
Chapter Four: The Diary of a Writer’s Success......Page 96
Chapter Five: Introductory Notes on Readers’ Letters......Page 110
Chapter Six: Dostoevskii’s Omnipotence: Readers Asking for Help......Page 130
Chapter Seven: Looking for the Right Interlocutors: Women Readers......Page 148
Chapter Eight: The Moment to Say the Last Word: the Russian Idea and the Eastern Question......Page 170
Chapter Nine: The Extreme Paradox: the Jewish Question......Page 192
Epilogue......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 222