Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.
Detractors and defenders of Dostoevsky's art -- The early Dostoevsky -- Fact, fiction, and psychology in Dostoevsky's art -- The art of Crime and punishment -- The hierarchy of meanings in The idiot -- Dostoevsky and the drama : The possessed -- On the style of A raw youth -- Subtext, intertext, and ambiguity in The Brothers Karamazov.
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Admirers have praised Fedor Dostoevsky as the Russian Shakespeare, while his critics have slighted his novels as merely cheap amusements. In this critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, the author asks readers to draw their own conclusions about the nineteenth-century Russian writer. Discussing psychological, political, mythical, and philosophical approaches, he guides readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.
Reading Dostoevsky.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dostoevskiĭ, F. M., (Fedor Mikhaĭlovich),1821-1881-- Criticism and interpretation.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Critique et interprétation.