{"product_id":"reading-dostoevsky-paperback","title":"Reading Dostoevsky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Terras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A substantial contribution both to Dostoevsky scholarship and to scholarship on the novel. . . . The first book in quite a while to address itself to all of Dostoevsky's opus, certainly a bold move that only someone of Terras's stature could pull off.\"-Gary Rosenshield, University of Madison-Wisconsin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Admirers have praised Fedor Dostoevsky as the Russian Shakespeare, while his critics have slighted his novels as merely cheap amusements. In this stimulating critical introduction to Dostoevsky's fiction, literary scholar Victor Terras asks readers to draw their own conclusions about the nineteenth-century Russian writer. Discussing psychological, political, mythical, and philosophical approaches, Terras deftly guides readers through the range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations of Dostoevsky's rich novels.\u003cbr\u003e Moving through the novelist's career, Terras presents a general analysis of the novel at issue, each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of Dostoevsky's art. He probes the form and style of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, and explores the ambiguity of \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e. Terras emphasizes the \"markedness,\" of Dostoevsky's novels, their wealth of literary devices such as irony, literary allusions, scenic effects, puns, and witticisms.\u003cbr\u003e Terras conveys the vital contradictions and ambiguities of the novels. In this informative, engaging literary study, Terras brings Dostoevsky and his art to life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Terras is Henry L. Goddard University Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of several books, most recently\u003ci\u003e Mayakovsky\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eTh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e: An Interpretatio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA History of Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. A Karamazov Companion is also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Terras has translated three volumes of Dostoevsky's writing and edited seven volumes of Slavic scholarly texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.06 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42164016676999,"sku":"9780299160548","price":32.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c6ebe946dfb10af51071f73626a0453a.webp?v=1733302129","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/reading-dostoevsky-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}