Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being

Paul Fung (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-60023-5 (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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 247 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-60023-4 / 0367600234
ISBN-13	978-0-367-60023-5 / 9780367600235
Zustand	Neuware