• Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity

    Author(s):
    Katherine Bowers (see profile) , Kate Holland
    Date:
    2021
    Subject(s):
    Russian literature, Nineteenth century, Fiction, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881, Narration (Rhetoric)
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    novel, form, Characterization, 19th-century Russian literature, Theory of the novel, Dostoevsky, Narrative, Genre
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/5e7p-fr28
    Abstract:
    This is the introduction to the volume, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity, published in 2021 by University of Toronto Press. Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky’s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer’s art – specifically the tension between experience and formal representation – as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky’s works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives. Contributors situate Dostoevsky’s formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky’s particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky’s works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of Russian literature but also to those curious about the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevsky’s contribution to the novel as a form.
    Notes:
    This is the introduction to the volume Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity, published by University of Toronto Press (https://utorontopress.com/9781487508630/dostoevsky-at-200/) and co-edited by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The volume is available open access with support from the University of Toronto Press Open Monographs program (https://hdl.handle.net/1807/106644) under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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    Publisher:
    University of Toronto Press
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Book Title:
    Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity
    Author/Editor:
    Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland
    Chapter:
    Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity
    Page Range:
    3 - 20
    ISBN:
    978-1-4875-3864-4
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial
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