Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2005
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-3098-6 (ISBN)

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This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North Texas set the stage for this volume. Scholars contributed original papers focusing on how Dostoevsky's literary art and philosophical insights enrich one another. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote and thought polyphonically. His polyphonic method is both his special literary technique and his distinctive way of probing theological, social, and philosophical depths. As Bakhtin and Terras suggest, all Dostoevsky's major literary inventions—from the underground man to the vitriolic Grushenka—are products of his ability to listen profoundly to his own characters. Like the genius author-redactor of 1 and 2 Samuel, he reports the heights and depths of human emotion and behavior, whether exploring the anatomy of dysfunctional families, making the heart soar with Zosima's vision of forgiveness, or giving Ivan Karamazov full rein to challenge theism. Dostoevsky's characters transform themselves into irregular verbs whose fierce independence emerges only because of their desperate and inescapable interdependence. His major characters are text, subtext, and context for each other. They play inside each other's head and answer in one way or another.

Joe E. Barnhart is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. Professor Barnhart holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. He is the author of journal articles and papers on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Karl Popper, and biblical criticism.

Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction: Hearing Voices: Joe Barnhart, Editor
Chapter 3 Rival Ideologies: Dostoevsky on Evil as a Perversion of Personhood: A Reading of Ivan Karamazov and the Grand Inquisitor: Ralph C. Wood
Chapter 4 Still Too High a Price? Ivan's Question in the Light of Contemporary Theodicy: Dan R. Stiver
Chapter 5 Encountering the Incarnate Subject: Dostoevsky's Fiction as an Embodiment of and Contribution to Orthodox Theology: Aaron Taylor
Chapter 6 Dostoevsky and the Historical Christ: Joe Barnhart
Chapter 7 Dostoevsky and Alienation: Linda Kraeger
Chapter 8 Family Voices in Conflict: The Karamazovs-A Paradigm in Dysfunctionality: Ignat Avsey
Chapter 9 Son and Fathers: The Character of Dominant Ideas and the Ideas of Dominant Characters in a Raw Youth: Joseph D. Stamey
Chapter 10 Contracts with Fate: Dostoevsky's Characters: Joe Barnhart
Chapter 11 The Village of Stepanchikovo or "There's a man with No Clothes On!": Ignat Avsey
Chapter 12 Going Underground: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground: Victor Terras
Chapter 13 Schelling, Dostoevsky, and Chernychevsky: Egoism, Freedom, and Madness in Notes from Underground: James M. McLachlan
Chapter 14 The Literary Artist's Fantastic Realism: The French and the Russian Underground Man: Dostoevsky and Montherlant: Victor Terras
Chapter 15 "Living at Double Intensity": Dialogized Consciousness, the Question of Satire, and the Ethics of Representation in Dostoevsky's Poor Folk: Stephen Souris
Chapter 16 The Translator's Tale in the Bible and Dostoevskyland: Ignat Avsey
Chapter 17 Brief Biographies of the Authors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2005
Co-Autor	Joe E. Barnhart, Ralph C. Wood, Dan R. Stiver, Aaron Taylor
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 215 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7618-3098-7 / 0761830987
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-3098-6 / 9780761830986
Zustand	Neuware