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The boundaries of genre :

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The boundaries of genre :

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Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer and the traditions of literary utopia /

by Gary Saul Morson.

Evanston, IL :

Northwestern University Press,

[1981]

©1981

xiv, 219 pages ;

23 cm

Northwestern University Press paperbacks

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dostoevsky's icon of chaos -- Threshold art -- Utopia as a literary genre -- Recontextualizations.

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Using Dostoevsky's most radical experiment in literary form as a springboard, Gary Saul Morson examines a number of key topics in contemporary literary theory, including the nature of literary genres and their relation to interpretation. He convincingly argues that genre is not a property of texts alone but arises from the interaction between texts and readers. Observing that changing conventions of interpretation and classifciation may alter the perception of particular works, Morson considers a number of problematic texts that have been read according to two contradictory sets of conventions - "boundary works" - and a futher group of texts - "threshold works" such as Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer - that were evidently designed by their authors to exploit this kind of hermeneutic ambivalence. Morson explores the nature of the literary utopia and its parodic form, the anti-utopia, and, returning to Dostoevsky's Diary as his example, a third form which exists as a sort of open dialogue of utopia and anti-utopia.

Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer and the traditions of literary utopia

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881., Dnevnik pisateli︠a︡.

Dnevnik pisateli︠a︡ (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)

Utopias in literature.

Utopias in literature.

Morson, Gary Saul,1948-

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