Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being

Paul Fung (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2014
Legenda (Verlag)
978-1-909662-08-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores the specific implications of epilepsy in each of the Fyodor Dostoevsky's major post-Siberian novels. It discusses Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony to demonstrate the ways in which different historical and literary references to epilepsy are amalgamated in Dostoevsky's works.

Paul Fung

Introduction 1. The Egoism of Suffering': Schiller with Sade 2. Petersburg and the Deaf and Dumb Spirit 3. The Image without an Image: The Guillotine and Holbein's Dead Christ 4. The Will to Epilepsy: Suicide, Writing, and Modernity 5. The Karamazovs' Other History: Childhood, Violence, and the Shriekers 6. Conclusion: Death Sentences: Infinite Postponement

Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-909662-08-9 / 1909662089
ISBN-13	978-1-909662-08-7 / 9781909662087
Zustand	Neuware