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Author:

Miller, Robin Feuer, 1947-

Title:

Dostoevsky's unfinished journey / Robin Feuer Miller.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvii, 242 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,--1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,--1821-1881--Themes, motives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-229) and index.

Contents:

Index. Introduction -- 8. Conversion, message, medium, transformation : Dostoevsky and the peasants -- 2. Guilt, repentance, and the pursuit of art in The house of the dead -- 3. Crime and punishment in the classroom : the elephant in the garden -- 4. The gospel according to Dostoevsky : paradox, plot, and parable -- 5. Transformations, exposures, and intimations of Rousseau in The possessed -- 6. Unsealing the generic envelope and deciphering "The dream of a ridiculous man" -- 7. Evocations and revocations of anxiety in the metaphysical novel : reading The brothers Karamazov through the lens of Melmoth the Wanderer -- 8. Perilous journeys to conversion : adventures in time and space -- Concluding fragments : some last words -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN:

030012015X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300120158 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007015553

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)