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Taylor, Eric J. "Dostoevsky and his kingdom vision." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Woodson, Lisa Elaine. "Dostoevsky as theologian in The idiot." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Prown, Katherine Hemple. "Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Antimodernist Tradition." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625432.

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Horst, Stephen Scott. "Dostoevsky as apologist." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683031.

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Banta, Bonnie L. "Melville and Dostoevsky a comparision [sic] of their writings /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2000. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2822. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves I-V. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106).
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McCoubrey, Sam. "Suffering and Redemption in the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/449.

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Thesis advisor: Peter Kreeft
In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov was convinced it is not right that there is so much suffering in the world, and was convinced nothing could make it right. As a result he was left with no choice but to reject the ticket for this world, or to be indignant toward the world, which means he was indignant toward life in it. If we listen closely to what Fyodor Dostoevksy had to say in five of his works, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Insulted and Injured, and Notes from the Underground, we will find a way in which we can accept the ticket, which is to say that we will find a way to love life
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Burgess, David Fred. "Narrative fits : Freud's essay on Dostoevsky /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6659.

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Woodford, Maria Vladimirovna. "Dreams in Dostoevsky's early works." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369338.

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Kaplan, Richard Edward. "Dostoevsky, Melville and the conventions of the novel fictional alliances /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 1993. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=746557821&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Yee, Sin-cheung. "Sleepwalkers in the cities of Dostoevsky and T.S. Eliot." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31579541.

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Katz, Elena M. "Representations of 'the Jew' in the writings of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/50605/.

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The image of 'the Jew' in nineteenth-century Russian literary texts is traditionally viewed as a paradigm of anti-Semitic discourse. Critics have typically accentuated the presence and continuity of negative stereotypes of the Jews. Yet anti-Semitic discourse is not the only approach to the representation of the Jews in Russian literature. This study explores the manifold nature of the portrayal of 'the Jew' in the works of three Russian writers of the highest calibre: Gogol, Dostoevsky and Turgenev. Literature at the time was highly politicized and a writer was expected to examine the issues of the day from an ideological stance. This meant that a writer's fictional representation of 'the Jew' was treated by many as an illustration of Jews' qualities in real life. After the partitions of Poland in the eighteenth century, Russia acquired a large Jewish population. These new Jewish subjects were confined to the Pale of Settlement, which restricted their rights of residence in Russia proper. That in itself meant that the majority of Jews were invisible to Russian society. Writers mainly used Western literary patterns in describing 'the Jew'. Nevertheless, in using traditional mythic stereotypes of the Jews they not only applied the familiar framework of Western authors but also created images based on specifically Russian culture. Moreover, at different periods of the century 'the Jew' was endowed with traits uncharacteristic of previous myths. The writers' constructions of 'the Jew' thus became complex and flexible. In order to investigate the complex constructions of 'the Jew' the following matters are discussed: (1) the depiction of 'the Jew' by these three writers in conjunction with their understanding of their own identity, events occurring during their lifetime, and stereotypical frames of reference for the Jews; (2) the degree of controversy in their representations; (3) their use of the image of 'the Jew' to define the essential qualities of the Russian.
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Chadwick, Philip. "The ethics of the novel in the life of the town : provincial communities in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and George Eliot." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:22c60742-d0e1-4570-9360-b6b90e1abeaa.

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This thesis analyses the function of the provincial town in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and George Eliot (1819-1880). It demonstrates that the small town, far from being a neutral backdrop to their narratives, functions as a sociological space in which to appropriate or challenge the discourses of modernity with which Dostoevsky and Eliot were explicitly preoccupied. The first chapter examines how their provincial communities negotiate biblical narrative in a world in which, thanks to nineteenth-century attempts to historicise the Bible, an acceptance of the Bible's authoritative status is no longer a given. The instability of language itself is then interrogated in my second chapter, which shows that the transition from denotative, referential meaning to connotative, abstract forms causes ethical and narrative tension within the world of the novel, and which explores the aesthetics and ethics of gossip in the provincial town and novel. The third chapter details what becomes of the nineteenth-century discourse of heroism when characters seek to enact it in a provincial setting, showing that the environment of the provincial town proves hostile to heroic ambition, whilst the fourth argues that the provincial application of professional discourse (particularly that of medicine and the law) is critiqued and perfected by these authors. Through the analysis of this discourse, it is shown that Eliot and Dostoevsky's treatment of provincialism is ambivalent. As urban intellectuals who did not consent to inhabit the provincial milieu they depict, they in many respects censure the world they describe. However, this censure is not absolute, and through their chosen setting, as well as their chosen genre of the novel, they provide ethical instruction for their readers, then and now. Ethics, for them, are best tested in community, and explored in narrative.
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Levai, Ruth [Verfasser]. "The concept of truth. Four Works by Annette von Droste Hülshoff, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Georges Bernanos / Ruth Levai." München : GRIN Verlag, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1228537305/34.

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Hebbeler, Michael H. "The Sister Karamazov: Dorothy Day's Encounter with Dostoevsky's Novel." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1250126537.

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Schimelpfenig, Sharla J. (Sharla Jan). "A Comprehensive View of Faith in "The Brothers Karamozov" Through the Collective Personality." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501023/.

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In examining Dostoevsky's treatment of faith in The Brothers Karamazov, critics often focus solely on "The Grand Inquisitor." Dostoevsky, however, refutes the Inquisitor's views through the movement of the three Karamazov brothers toward faith. The three Karamazov brothers, as a collective personality, represent the fundamental needs of man and the corresponding aspects of faith, each brother being an individual study of the necessity of integrating soul, heart and mind into faith. The crises that each brother faces force each one to develop a fuller dimension of faith. The final effect of integrating the soul, heart and mind in faith is active love.
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Abdulmassih, Fabio Brazolin. "Aulas de literatura russa - F.M. Dostoiévski por N. Nabókov: por que tirar Doistoiévski do pedestal?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-29092010-112244/.

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Este trabalho é composto pela tradução anotada do texto original em inglês Fyodor Dostoevski (1821 1881), que faz parte das aulas de literatura russa que o autor russo Vladímir Nabókov ministrou em universidades americanas de 1941 a 1959, bem como por uma introdução biobibliográfica e crítica sobre o autor, de um modo geral, e de um ensaio crítico sobre suas opiniões a respeito das principais obras de Fiódor Dostoiévski, em particular. Para tanto, serão comentadas as principais opiniões críticas de Nabókov sobre os romances Crime e Castigo, Memórias do Subsolo, O Idiota, Os Demônios e os Irmãos Karámazov de Dostoiévski à luz das concepções de Mikhail Bakhtin, Leonid Grossman, Joseph Frank, entre outros.
This research is composed of the annotated translation of the original text in English Fyodor Dostoevski (1821 - 1881), which is part of the lectures on Russian literature that the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov gave in American universities from 1941 to 1959, as well as by a biobibliographical and critical introduction about the author, in a general way, and a critical essay about his opinions concerning the major works of Fyodor Dostoevski, in particular. To accomplish this task, Nabokovs opinions about the novels Crime and Punishment, Memories from the Underground, The Possessed, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov have been studied in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin, Leonid Grossman, Joseph Frank, among others.
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Randall, Samuel. "Stellvertretung as vicarious suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287466.

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Stellvertretung represents a consistent and central hermeneutic for Bonhoeffer. This thesis demonstrates that, in contrast to other translations, a more precise interpretation of Bonhoeffer's use of Stellvertretung would be 'vicarious suffering'. For Bonhoeffer Stellvertretung as 'vicarious suffering' illuminates not only the action of God in Christ for the sins of the world, but also Christian discipleship as participation in Christ's suffering for others; to be as Christ: Schuldübernahme. In this understanding of Stellvertretung as vicarious suffering Bonhoeffer demonstrates independence from his Protestant (Lutheran) heritage and reflects an interpretation that bears comparison with broader ecumenical understanding. This study of Bonhoeffer's writings draws attention to Bonhoeffer's critical affection towards Catholicism and highlights the theological importance of vicarious suffering during a period of renewal in Catholic theology, popular piety and fictional literature. Although Bonhoeffer references fictional literature in his writings, and indicates its importance in ethical and theological discussion, there has been little attempt to analyse or consider its contribution to Bonhoeffer's theology. This thesis fills this lacuna in its consideration of the reception by Bonhoeffer of the writings of Georges Bernanos, Reinhold Schneider and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Each of these writers features vicarious suffering, or its conceptual equivalent, as an important motif. According to Bonhoeffer Christian discipleship is the action of vicarious suffering (Stellvertretung) and of Verantwortung (responsibility) in love for others and of taking upon oneself the Schuld that burdens the world.
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Kaderabek, Sarah. "Fyodor Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68109.

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The complex nature of Netochka Nezvanova, one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's early pieces, makes this work an interesting and revealing point from which to study the evolution of the writer's craftsmanship. Written under the influence of major Russian, French, and German prose works of the period, it reflects Dostoevsky's process of creative emulation of the achievement of European realist writing and a process of reworking of Russian Romanticism into what would later be called "psychological realism." The unfinished nature of Netochka Nezvanova testifies to Dostoevsky's struggle with the previous literary tradition and to his search for a new literary form. The character types, themes, and stylistic devices with which Dostoevsky experimented in this work would come to play a central role in the creation of his later masterpieces.
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Kirkman, Mackenzie Raine. ""Man, the Creature": A Dramaturgically Driven Adaptation of Dostoevsky's "Notes from a Dead House"." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami156450135543229.

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Miranda, Lorena Leite. "Identidade nacional Russa na literatura de viagem de Dostoiévski e Herzen." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-14012015-182648/.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo discutir o pensamento político de Dostoiévski a partir de uma comparação entre Notas de Inverno sobre Impressões de Verão (1863) ciclo de artigos reunindo as impressões do autor sobre sua primeira viagem à Europa, em 1862 e outro importante relato de viagem anterior ao de Dostoiévski, Cartas de França e Itália (1855), de Aleksandr Gertsen (Herzen). Estas duas obras, cujos autores ocupam posições bastante distintas dentre o espectro Ocidentalista-Eslavófilo do século XIX russo, contêm em germe as ideias políticas de ambos, sobretudo no que diz respeito à complexa relação Rússia-Ocidente. Entendo que cotejar Dostoiévski com um dos principais representantes de seus adversários ideológicos é um modo profícuo de problematizar, e assim melhor compreender, suas ideias políticas
The dissertation aims at discussing Dostoevsky\'s political thinking. This shall be done through the comparative analysis of Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863) a collection of articles on the author\'s impressions after his first trip to Europe, in 1862 and another important travelogue that preceded Dostoevsky\'s, Letters from France and Italy (1855), by Aleksandr Gertsen (Herzen). These two works, whose authors take rather divergent positions within the Westernizers-Slavophiles spectrum in 19th century Russia, synthesize their political views, chiefly concerning the complex relationship between Russia and the West. My claim is that comparing Dostoevsky to one of the main spokesmen of his ideological antagonists may prove fruitful to understanding his political ideas
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Ribeiro, Vitor Alexandre. "Subsolos portenhos : o intertexto Arlt-Dostoiévski." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/24841.

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Este trabalho trata do jogo de contextos envolvidos no intertexto Arlt-Dostoiévski. Ele sustenta que, por trás do espaço intertextual, há um choque e uma interação de contextos através da representação literária e da modelação, em que a representação literária de um contexto a media e estrutura a interpretação e a ficcionalização de um contexto b. Nisto consiste o conceito de intercontextualização, o qual lança a base para o presente estudo acerca do intertexto Arl-Dostoiévski. No caso da transtextualização da ficção dostoievskiana por Arlt, a constituição literário-arquetípica é de importância fundamental. Portanto, o arquétipo do subsolo é investigado como a instância representacional de tradições clandestinas, subversivas e não-canônicas. Essas tradições – às quais eu chamo de tradições subterrâneas –, mediadas através do material ficcional dostoievskiano, representam para Arlt uma alternativa global e ampla à tradição crioula tal como fabricada pela elite argentina como suporte cultural para seu projeto político. Não pretendo aqui apresentar uma análise histórica em profundidade dos elementos contextuais específicos ligados a cada um dos textos em diálogo. Em vez disso, proponho estabelecer os princípios teóricos para a leitura intercontextual dos arquétipos literários e seu papel no processo de recepção-criação.
This work deals with the interplay of contexts involved in the Arlt-Dostoevsky intertext. It asserts that, behind the intertextual space, there is a clash and an interrelation of contexts through literary representation and modeling, where the literary representation of a context a mediate and structure the interpretation and the fictionalization of a given receptive context b. In this consists the concept of intercontextualization, which lays the basis for this study on the Arlt-Dostoevsky intertext. In the case of Arlt’s transtextualization of Dostoevskyan fiction, the literary-archetypal constitution is of fundamental importance. Therefore, the underground archetype is investigated as the representational instance of clandestine, subversive and noncanonical traditions. These traditions – which I call underground traditions –, mediated through the Dostoevskyan fictional material, represent to Arlt a global and wide alternative to the criollo tradition as fabricated by the Argentinean elite as a cultural support for their political agenda. I do not intend here to present an in-depth historical analysis of the specific contextual elements connected to each of texts in dialog. Instead, I propose to set the theoretical principles to the intercontextual reading of the literary archetypes and their role in the process of reception-creation.
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Wahlström, Fredrik. "Brott och straff i lättläst adaption : En komparativ analys av Fjodor Dostojevskijs Brott och straff och romanen i lättläst bearbetning." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82538.

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In the current landscape of Sweden, easy-to-read literature demand is surging. But the opinions of its shape and form are being questioned: is this type of literature in reality easier to understand, or is the removed content in fact making it less comprehensive? The study’s purpose is to analyze easy-to-read literature’s ability to manage complex motives, and if it changes the reading experience from the original. To attempt that, the study uses a comparative analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and punishment and its easy-to-read adaptation, written by Johan Werkmäster. To understand how Werkmäster’s adaptation manages complex motives, the comparative analysis uses three motives from Professor George Strem, who argues that Crime and punishment is built on suffering, humility and the ideal of the Superman. To answer whether the easy-to-read version changes the reading experience or not, the study uses Professor Rita Felski’s terminology of chock and Anna Nordenstam and Christina Olin-Scheller’s identification.   The analysis shows that the easy-to-read version of Crime and punishment maintains the main story but excludes the ideal of the Superman, which alters the understanding of suffering and humility. As a consequence this also means Felski’s chock is replaced by Nordenstam and Olin-Scheller’s identification, showing that the reading experience is indeed changed.    The conclusion is that the changes in the adaptation cause problems regarding the reader’s ability to understand Raskolnikov. The result also leads to question what the most important factor is when reading easy-to-read literature. Whereas the authors and publishers argue that literacy and motivation is essential to the target audience, Felski and Nordenstam and Olin-Scheller claim that the reading experience is more important. This shows the need of more science in this area to create a consensus of what easy-to-read literature should be, and how it best helps the readers develop their reading ability.
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Welsh, Robert. "Brotherly love in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov /." View online, 1989. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998832126.pdf.

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Caprari, Gina Nichole. "Everything is permitted : three essays in the spirit of Fyodor Dostoevsky's underground /." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/englsp/1.

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Thesis (B.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.
Project advisor: Robert Inchausti. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Jan. 20, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Kilgore, Karen Marie. "Starets Zosima, exemplar of spiritual generation a study of the spiritual father in Dostoevsky's The brothers Karamazov /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Zanoaga, Cristina. "Nathalie Sarraute et le double : un dialogue avec Fiodor Dostoïevski." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3054/document.

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Bien que l'œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute ne traite pas directement du double en tant que motif littéraire, il n'en demeure pas moins que la poétique du double constitue la base d'une large part de ses récits et se manifeste précisément par le biais de la figure de l'équivoque, grâce à une rhétorique qui met en jeu l'inlassable dynamique entre le visible et l'invisible, le dicible et l'indicible, la surface et le contenu, le trompe l'œil et le sous-entendu. Pour révéler la vaste gamme de phénomènes qui s'intègrent à la définition du double chez Sarraute, nous allons nous inspirer, comme elle, de ses lectures de Dostoïevski, écrivain qui entame avec Le Double une métamorphose de la figure héritée de la littérature fantastique. Cette étude porte donc sur la relation qui se tisse entre les textes de Sarraute et Dostoïevski du point de vue de l'évolution de la figure du double. Par la mise en scène d'un sujet en crise qui intériorise l'altérité tout en la reniant sans relâche, Dostoïevski, plus encore que d'autres, semble avoir fourni à Nathalie Sarraute une riche matière de réflexion sur l'identité du personnage, de l'auteur et de l'œuvre littéraire en général. Dès lors que l'altérité perturbe l'unité de toute représentation, le lecteur est conduit à osciller constamment soit entre deux niveaux différents de la réalité, celui des apparences et des ressentis, soit entre les multiples interprétations de ces derniers. L'écriture des tropismes, ces mouvements intérieurs sous-jacents, apparaît de la sorte comme l'écriture de ce qui n'est pas seulement double, mais multiplication de doubles et division infinie
Even if Nathalie Sarraute's work does not provide an explicit interpretation of the double as a literary device for articulating the experience of self-division, it is obvious that the poetics of the double is present in a wide part of her novels by the means of a rhetoric which brings into play the dynamics of the relationship between what can be visible and invisible, be said and not, the surface and the contents, the illusion and the allusion. In order to study the broad range of phenomena that can be associated to Sarraute's definition of the double, we have been inspired, as herself, by the readings of Dostoevsky, who starts, with The Double, a process of metamorphosis of doppelganger inherited from the fantastic literature. So, the main purpose of our research is to analyze the various relationships that exist between the texts of Sarraute and Dostoevsky from the point of view of the evolution of the double. By drawing a subject in crisis divided between his ambiguous necessity of interiorizing the otherness and denying it, Dostoevsky seems to lead Nathalie Sarraute to question the nature and identity of the characters, of the author and even of the literary work. Since the otherness disturbs the unity of any representation, the reader is lead to waver all the time either between the two different levels of the reality, that of the illusory appearances and that of the tropisms, or between the multiple interpretations of these last ones. Sarraute's writing becomes then writing not only of the double, but also of the multiplication of doubles and of the infinite division
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Smith, James Gregory. "The Dostoevskyan Dialectic in Selected North American Literary Works." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278268/.

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This study is an examination of the rhetorical concept of the dialectic as it is realized in selected works of North American dystopian literature. The dialectic is one of the main factors in curtailing enlightenment rationalism which, taken to an extreme, would deny man freedom while claiming to bestow freedom upon him. The focus of this dissertation is on an analysis of twentieth-century dystopias and the dialectic of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor parable which is a precursor to dystopian literature. The Grand Inquisitor parable of The Brothers Karamazov is a blueprint for dystopian states delineated in anti-utopian fiction. Also, Dostoevsky's parable constitutes a powerful dialectical struggle between polar opposites which are presented in the following twentieth-century dystopias: Zamiatin's Me, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The dialectic in the dystopian genre presents a give and take between the opposites of faith and doubt, liberty and slavery, and it often presents the individual of the anti-utopian state with a choice. When presented with the dialectic, then, the individual is presented with the capacity to make a real choice; therefore, he is presented with a hope for salvation in the totalitarian dystopias of modern twentieth-century literature.
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Young, Sarah J. "Dostoevsky's The idiot and the ethical foundations of narrative reading, narrating, scripting /." London : Anthem Press, 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/56540766.html.

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Arndt, Charles Henry. "Dostoevsky's engagement of Russian intellectuals in the question of Russia and Europe : from "Winter notes on summer impressions" to "The devils" /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3134245.

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Somerwil-Ayrton, Shirley Kathlyn. "Poverty and power in the early works of Dostoevskij." Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19071982.html.

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Weinczyk, Raimund Johann. "Myškin und Christus ein fiktives Gespräch mit J. Ratzinger auf der Basis von F. M. Dostoevskijs Roman "Idiot"." Heidelberg Winter, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2808126&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Kraeger, Linda T. "Conflict in The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky's Idea of the Origin of Sin." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500919/.

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The thesis systematically explicates Dostoevsky's portrayal of the origin of human evil on earth through the novel The Brothers Karamazov. Drawing from the novel and from Augustine, Pelagius, and Luther, the explication compares and contrasts Dostoevsky's doctrine of original conflict against the three theologians' views of original sin. Following a brief summary of the three earlier theories of original sin, the thesis describes Dostoevsky's peculiar doctrine of Karamazovism and his unique account of how human evil originated. Finally, the thesis shows how suffering, love, and guilt grow out of the original conflict and how the image of Christ serves as an icon of the special kind of social unity projected by Zosima the Elder in The Brothers Karamazov.
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Pejovic, Milivoje. "Recherche sur la relation entre Proust et Dostoïevski." Paris (47 bis Av. de Clichy, 75017) : Éd. du Titre, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36990073t.

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Beideman, Carl Ross. "The alienated human being and the possibility of home: a comparative analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' and Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels'." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/beideman/BeidemanC0509.pdf.

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This thesis addresses the state of human alienation as a consciousness that pervades our destructive, perverse tendencies. This consciousness is readily viewable from the perspective of current environmental crisis. As such, it is proposed that an investigation into the alienated consciousness might reveal both why we dominate and destroy our environment and ourselves, as well as how we might resolve alienation and, by extension, begin to live harmoniously within our surroundings and neighbors on earth. Two texts, Crime and Punishment and Desolation Angels, by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jack Kerouac, respectively, are exemplary of the type of human alienation discussed in this thesis: that is, the alienation that arises from our perceived existence as neither gods (stewardship) nor animals (beasts). This anomalous state is further revealed through the inclusion of Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity, which condemns our totalistic trajectory as reinforcing alienation by obstructing the trajectory of infinity, or the proper course of humanity marked by ethics of interconnectivity and diversity. Also included is Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, which helps reveal how ethics of interconnectivity and diversity are arranged in Dostoevsky's work. By reading these texts together, we reveal that alienation is a unique derivative of particular socio-cultural spaces, and that the modernizing human trajectory since the burgeoning of capitalism in 1860s Russia to postwar America has only served to reinforce alienation, thus linking perverse destruction to exploitative societies as marked by the pursuit of material gain. We therefore conclude that keen attention must be paid to the human ego as well as dedication to sustainability through the reduction of excess if we wish to resolve alienation and the domination and exhaustion of resources and diversity that ensues.
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Rousseau, Marjorie. "Des filles sans joie : Le roman de la prostituée de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : Espagne, France, Russie." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2020.

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Au moment où la prostitution semble exploser dans les villes, la fille des rues envahit la littérature de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Cette héroïne nouvelle acquiert bien vite le premier rôle de ce qui devient un sous-genre romanesque à part entière, le « roman de fille », dont on mettra en évidence la structure et les motifs privilégiés. Un détour par les discours médicaux, moraux et sociaux du temps sur la femme et la prostituée nous permettra de mieux appréhender le fonctionnement et les significations multiples que ce personnage revêt en littérature. Figure du manque et de la dépossession, la prostituée interroge la vision masculine du féminin, mais elle traduit aussi les inquiétudes des contemporains face aux nombreuses mutations sociales, économiques et politiques du siècle ; elle se fait le reflet d’angoisses existentielles sur le rapport au corps, aux autres et à la mort, ainsi que le lieu privilégié de réflexions artistiques et esthétiques
While prostitution was exploding within the cities, the character of the prostitute flourished in the second part of the nineteenth-Century literature. This new heroine quickly gets the leading part in a soon-To-Be proper literary fictional sub-genre, the “prostitute novel”, whose structure and motifs will be pointed out in our research. We will evoke medical, moral and social discourses about women and prostitutes in the 19th century in order to grasp the numerous roles this character can assume in literature. As a protagonist of the loss and deprivation, the prostitute questions the masculine vision of women, but she also embodies her time’s worries about the multiple social, economical and political transformations happening. She also holds a mirror to existential anxieties about the relationship to the Body, the Other and Death, and appears to be a privileged character for artistic and aesthetic considerations
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Brookes, Alexander. "Non-Euclidean Geometry and Russion Literature| A Study of Fictional Truth and Ontology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift, and Daniil Kharms's Incidents." Thesis, Yale University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3578319.

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This dissertation is an investigation of a theoretical problem—the determination of truth and being in a work of literary fiction—in the context of a momentous event in the history of mathematics—the discovery of a consistent non-Euclidean geometry. Beginning with the first interpretations of the philosophical significance of non-Euclidean geometry to enter the Russian cultural sphere in the 1870s, I analyze how the works by three Russian authors—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Daniil Kharms—integrate the principles of mathematical truth into their construction of a fictional ontology and methods of fictional truth evaluation. Each author, I argue, combines their own aesthetic program with the changes in the philosophy of mathematics underwent in their respective eras and historical contexts. The diversity of these contexts provides the variables, against which this theoretical problem is analyzed.

The first chapter deals with Dostoevsky's interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry and its philosophical significance expressed in Ivan Karamazov's rebellion against God in Brothers Karamazov. I argue that Dostoevsky deploys the Euclidean/non-Euclidean binary to juxtapose two methods of fictional truth evaluation—a traditional model, obsolete in light of the principles of non-Euclidean geometry, and another model, which Dostoevsky embraces in Brothers Karamazov, based on the paradoxical and yet true axioms of the new geometry. I phrase the distinction in the terms of possibility and necessity: the new model of fictional truth evaluation is for propositions which are true in all possible worlds except the actual. In Chapter Two, I draw upon previous analysis of Nabokov's The Gift and the mention of Lobachevsky's geometry in the internal biography of Chernyshevsky, to argue that the narrative structure of The Gift returns to the Euclidean/non-Euclidean binary as introduced by Dostoevsky, but re-interprets the otherworldly according to Nabokov's own aesthetic praxis and the interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry by late-nineteen and early twentieth century geometers and physicists. Nabokov applies concepts of non-Euclidean geometry and space to the actual world. This analysis provides a framework for interpreting the space and time of The Gift according to structures suggested within the novel itself. The third chapter investigates Kharms's interpretation of the significance and meaning of geometry in light of the impact that non-Euclidean geometry had on mathematical propositions as a means of describing possible states of affairs. I place Kharms's fictional objects, such as the red-headed man of "Blue Notebook no. 10," and implications to truth evaluation in "Sonnet" and "Symphony no. 2," in the context of anti-Kantian theories of truth and logic, which arose in the period around the turn of twentieth century.

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Kaderabek, Sarah. "Beyond fidelity : the works of Gogol', Dostoevskii and Chekhov in Soviet and Russian film." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36962.

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The transfer of an artistic work from the literary medium to the filmic medium presents technical, personal, social and political factors for consideration which are capable of revealing important information about the times in which both the literary work and the film work were created. In a Russian context, where both literature and film have played roles of central cultural importance, the study of this interaction can be particularly fruitful. The first chapter of this dissertation considers the theoretical aspects of adaptation, namely fidelity to the original work and questions of metaphor and narrative structure. After examining these issues in a general context, Chapter 1 then views them in the light of specific stages of Russian cinematic history. The remaining chapters of this dissertation consider selected post-revolutionary Soviet and Russian filmic adaptations of the works of Nikolai Gogol', Fedor Dostoevskii and Anton Chekhov in chronological order. Analysis of both text and film is undertaken in order to demonstrate the complexity of literary and extra-literary factors involved in adaptation. The works of Gogol' have provided film makers with the challenge of finding "adequate" filmic equivalents to this writer's narrative devices, particularly his use of skaz [oral folk narration]. Dostoevskii's works have proven to be a stumbling block for film makers, both in terms of their ideological acceptability, and their exploration of complex psychological and religious issues. The adaptations of Chekhov's works have provided cinema with diverse subject matter that reflects the various stages and developments of Russian cinematic history, from pure fabula borrowing to an emphasis on mood and atmosphere. The interdisciplinary approach of this dissertation strives to show both the on-going relevancy of nineteenth-century Russian literature to modern culture, and the cinema's ability to present vastly differing interpretive possibilities of the literary cano
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Moskalová, Jana. "Problém svobody v dějinách myšlení a jeho novodobý existenciální koncept z podledu spisovatele (F.M. Dostojevskij), filosofa (J.P.Sartre) a teologa (P.Tillich)." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299587.

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Since time immemorial, humankind has been concerned with freedom. This thesis introduces the most important thinkers who devoted themselves to studying freedom and who greatly influenced the perception of freedom. The thesis includes historical overview focusing on the problem of freedom mainly from theological and philosophical point of view. However, two authors in the field of psychology and sociology are mentioned as well. In existentialist philosophy, the human freedom is one of the most crucial topics, and it is presented here on the work of the writer Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the theologist Paul Tillich.
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Fan, Hui-Lien, and 范惠蓮. "A Study on the Nihilism in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor”." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69022973257967819634.

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Russia’s official religion is Orthodox Christianity, religious faith penetrates all aspects of social life; The authocratic rule established by the Mongols generated some profound differences between Russian and the Western culture. Russia''s Nihilism came into existence with this background of conservative Orthodox church and the Tsar autocracy, it was the outcome of traditional culture’s clash with the western secular rationalism. On social plane it made particular emphasis on the negation of all values and breaking up with traditional authorities, leading to the political terrorist activities. In the second half of the 19th century, the influential movement of revolutionaries originated from the ranks of Russian intelligentsia which was by and large under the influence of nihilism/ So in order to understand know the roots of Russian Revolution, one must first study the development of Nihilism in Russian society. “The Brothers Karamazov” is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s last full-length novel. The novel deals with the philosophy of religion, human nature and political issues; the Karamazov family in the novel is the epitome of Russian society .Traditionally, Russian thinking considered that people cannot have happiness and freedom at the same time; a human being should give up happiness to acquire his freedom. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a devout Orthodox believer. He was highly critic of Western church which, he believed, abandoned its faith for the worldly enjoyment while socialism and nihilism belittle the value of human life. He predicted that atheistic communism would lead to the emergence of the totalitarian government.
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Raitsimring, Ilonka. "It's a crime to punish a crime : Dostoevsky's views on criminal law, as extrapolated from Vremia and Epokha /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9951828.

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Schiefer, Barbara Claudia. "Dostoevsky's view of the "Intelligentsia" in 19th century Russia : a study of his major novels." Diss., 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17674.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky is often regarded as a proponent of the rights of the poor and downtrodden in Russian society in the 19th century. This view is usually based on the work of his youth - his first short novel and his early short stories. An examination of his major novels - all of which were written during his mature years between 1861 and 1879 - shows, however, that his views were far removed from those of the progressive members of Russian society of his day (the 11 intelligentsia11 ) and that his opinions became more reactionary with advancing age. By the time of his death in 1881, Dostoevsky had long been an opponent of democratic ideals and a keen supporter of the autocratic regime of Tsar Alexander II.
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Schiefer, Barbara Claudia. "Dostoevsky's view of the Intelligentsia in 19th century Russia : a study of his major works." Diss., 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17674.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky is often regarded as a proponent of the rights of the poor and downtrodden in Russian society in the 19th century. This view is usually based on the work of his youth - his first short novel and his early short stories. An examination of his major novels - all of which were written during his mature years between 1861 and 1879 - shows, however, that his views were far removed from those of the progressive members of Russian society of his day (the 11 intelligentsia11 ) and that his opinions became more reactionary with advancing age. By the time of his death in 1881, Dostoevsky had long been an opponent of democratic ideals and a keen supporter of the autocratic regime of Tsar Alexander II.
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Danowski, Grzegorz. "Translation and the problematics of textual integrity : a comparative analysis of two English renderings of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Dnevnik pisatelia." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14102.

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This paper is a comparative analysis of selections from the two English translations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's “Дневник писателя (1873-1881)” — The Diary of a Writer (Boris Brasol, 1949) and A Writer's Diary (Kenneth Lantz, 1993). The selections include the short stories "The Meek One" and "Bobok," the fictional epistle "A Half-Letter from a 'Certain Person,'" the semifictional sketch "A Hundred-Year-Old Woman," as well as two feullietons: "What Does the Word 'Striutsky' Mean" and "The History of the Verb 'Stushevatsia.'" While elements of reader response theory and recent translation studies scholarship provided a basic theoretical framework for this discussion, the latter shaped itself mainly as a comparison of the three primary texts: the Russian and the two English translations. This approach made it possible to amass a considerable database of textual detail upon which to draw for pronouncements regarding the difficulties that may potentially accompany translation from Russian into English in general, as well as the difficulties that seem to originate in the peculiarities of Dostoevsky's style. Although an effort has been made throughout to avoid a purely qualitative comparison of the two translations, this analysis frequently favours Lantz's translation as more accurate and flexible in its approach. Rather than constituting the ultimate object of the present study, whenever made, qualitative judgements provide points of departure for inquiry into the nature of the translator's task—one that often involves the ability and willingness to accept the untranslatable. By considering some parts of “Дневник” in relation to their English translations, this paper demonstrates that the most important aspect of the work is its "one-ness." Although clearly a combination of genres, it is also a separate genre in its own right. As this analysis proves, the formal paradox inherent in the Diary's very design has until recently puzzled, discouraged, and challenged both literary critics and translators. Together with Brasol's and Lantz's translations, this paper is offered as an effort aimed at promoting a better understanding of the Diary within the context of Dostoevsky's other literary and philosophical output.
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Beideman, Carl Ross. "The alientated human being and the possiblity of home a comparitive analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' and Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels' /." 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/beideman/BeidemanC0509.pdf.

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Bradley, Jocelyn. "An analysis of interpretations of F.M. Dostoevsky's the devils by soviet literary criticism during glasnost (1985-1991)." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20895.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree. of Master of Arts in Russian Studies. Joharmesburq, 1995
This thesis undertakes to examine the interdependence of ideology and literary scholarship, in particular regarding the legacy of F.M. Dostoevsky, in the Soviet Union; and to investigate the reflection of political and ideological agenda in Soviet literary criticism's interpretations of Dostoevsky's novel, The Devils during the era of glasnost, 1985-1991. I shall isolate, identify and describe the principal, ideological trends reflected in literary critiques and analyses of this novel, published in the Soviet Union during this specific period of time. My thesis will build on and develop previous research conducted around the analysis of Ideological trends in the Soviet Union through a study of literature and official literary criticism. Western commentators, such as B J.Simmons,V. Seduro, and H. Mondry have demonstrated the correlation between. general shifts in Party domestic and international policy and the ideological viewpoints expressed in literature and literary criticism. They have found it to be a valid practice to analyse certain political, social and ideological factors in the Soviet Union through a close study of literature and literary criticism. In continuing this research, I shall demonstrate that Soviet literary criticism during glasnost could still be regarded as a mirror of political and ideological changes in society, and that Soviet criticism's interpretations of Dostoevsky's The Devils could once again be used to help distinguish, delineate and clarify the ideological trends that existed in Soviet Society during this era. I shall begin my analysis with a consideration of the effects of Gorbachev's glasnost reforms on Soviet culture in general, and on literary cd]~'cal practice in particular; and of the role that literary criticism played in Soviet society during this area. I shall then proceed to a brief historical overview of interpretations of The Devils by Russian and Soviet literary critics, from its publication until the eve of the glasnost reforms, This will demonstrate both the manner in which literary criticism has mirrored Ideological trends in the USSR, and the validity of centring my research on this novel. From there, I shall turn to an examination of how interpretations Offered by Soviet literary critics of The Devils, as well as attitudes expressed by them regarding the writer's world outlook, reflected the ideological trends that existed In Soviet society during glasnost. The interpretations to be analysed will be taken from a broad range of Soviet literary periodicals, mono graphs, and discussions, published in the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1992
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