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050 00 $aPG3328.Z7$bP5323 2010
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100 1 $aBlank, Ksana.
245 10 $aDostoevsky's dialectics and the problem of sin /$cKsana Blank.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bNorthwestern University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 170 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in Russian literature and theory
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-162) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: -- Approaches to Dostoevsky -- Why dialectics? -- A model for Dostoevsky's dialectics -- Thesis, antithesis, and sin -- The principle of Dvuedinstvo (duality-in-unity) -- Antinomies of goodness, beauty, and truth -- Bakhtin's dialogism and Dostoevsky's (non-Hegelian) dialectics -- How this book is structured -- A word on methodology -- Part 1: The dialectic of goodness -- 1. "If you don't sin, you can't repent; if you don't repent, you can't achieve salvation" -- Controversies about the epilogue to Crime and punishment -- Saint Andrew of Crete and Dostoevsky's great sinners -- Raskolnikov at the door of repentance -- 2. A ray of light in the abyss -- Dmitry Karamazov's journey to the underworld -- The turning point -- The way of the grain -- 3. "The devil begins with froth on the lips of an angel" -- The cherub Alyosha Karamazov -- From saints to sinners: The spectrum of possibilities -- The novel's ending in light of the projected sequel -- Part 2: The dialectic of beauty -- 4. The corridor of mirrors in The idiot -- Krasivoe and Prekrasnoe: Two conceptions of beauty -- Beauty and charm (Prelest') -- Beauty, passion, and compassion: The novel's finale -- 5. A grain of eros in the Madonna, a spark of beauty in Sodom -- Madonna and Sodom -- The European aesthetic ideal of the Madonna -- The Madonna cult in Russian literature -- Part 3: The dialectic of truth -- 6. Dostoevsky's case for contradictions -- Pravda and Istina, two conceptions of truth -- High and low truth (Pravda) in notes from underground -- The birth of polarities in "The dream of a ridiculous man" -- 7. Antinomic truth (Istina) -- The principle of contradiction in Russian religious thought -- Pavel Florensky and Mikhail Bakhtin on antinomic (dialogic) truth -- Two truths in The Brothers Karamazov: Pro and contra.
600 10 $aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,$d1821-1881$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,$d1821-1881$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aDialectic in literature.
650 0 $aSin in literature.
650 0 $aParadox in literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
730 0 $aProject Muse UPCC books$5net
830 0 $aStudies in Russian literature and theory.
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