The Boundaries of Genre. Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia

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Author(s): Gary Saul Morson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Year: 1981

Language: English
Pages: 236
City: Evanston

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. Dostoevsky’s Icon of Chaos......Page 18
2. Threshold Art......Page 54
3. Utopia as a Literary Genre......Page 84
Part 1: Theory of Parody......Page 122
Part 2: Anti-utopia as a Parodic Genre......Page 130
Part 3: Meta-utopia......Page 157
Notes......Page 202
Index......Page 224