| Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters Contributor(s): Matzner-Gore, Greta (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810141981 ISBN-13: 9780810141988 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| LCCN: 2020002301 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and how to distribute attention among major and minor characters. For Dostoevsky, these were much more than practical questions about novelistic craft; they were ethical questions as well. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form traces Dostoevsky's indefatigable investigations into the ethical implications of his own formal choices. Drawing on his drafts, notebooks, and writings on aesthetics, Greta Matzner-Gore argues that Dostoevsky wove the moral and formal questions that obsessed him into the fabric of his last three novels: Demons, The Adolescent, and The Brothers Karamazov. In so doing, he anticipated some of the most pressing debates taking place in the study of narrative ethics today. |