Author(s): Joseph Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Princeton
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Part One: Contemporaries......Page 16
Chapter One. Roman Jakobson: The Master Linguist......Page 18
Chapter Two. The Voices of Mikhail Bakhtin......Page 33
Chapter Three. Ralph Ellison and Dostoevsky......Page 49
Chapter Foure. The Lectures of Professor Pnin......Page 64
Part Two: Overviews......Page 70
Chapter Five. Russian Thought: The Road to Revolution......Page 72
Chapter Six. The Search for a Positive Hero......Page 90
Chapter Seven. Russian Populism......Page 98
Chapter Eight. From Gogol to the Gulag......Page 104
Part Three: Dostoevsky......Page 122
Chapter Nine. Freud’s Case History of Dostoevsky......Page 124
Chapter Ten. The Background of Crime and Punishment......Page 137
Chapter Eleven. The Devils and the Nechaev Affair......Page 152
Chapter Twelve. Approaches to the Diary of a Writer......Page 168
Chapter Thirteen. Dostoevsky: Updated and Historical......Page 185
Chapter Fourteen. Dostoevsky and the European Romantics......Page 194
Part Four: The Dilemmas of Radicalism......Page 200
Chapter Fifteen. Nikolay Chernyshevsky: A Russian Utopia......Page 202
Chapter Sixteen. Sons against Fathers......Page 216
Chapter Seventeen. Deadly Idealist: Mikhail Bakunin......Page 224
Chapter Eighteen. Alexander Herzen: Who Is to Blame?......Page 228
Chapter Nineteen. The Birth of “Russian Socialism”......Page 234
Chapter Twenty. A Word on Leskov......Page 240
Index......Page 244
