Reading Dostoevsky

Reading Dostoevsky

Author: Victor Terras

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780299160548

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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.


The DŽvotes

The DŽvotes

Author: Elizabeth Rapley

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780773511019

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An account of the feminization of the Church in 17th-century France and as far abroad as New France. This book is intended for students of 17th century France, historians of religion and gender.


Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape

Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape

Author: Richard Pine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1349234125

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In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell (following the appearance in 1988 of The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell Richard Pine examines in detail Durrell's unique contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the evidence of Durrell's private notebooks and diaries. Pine's twenty-year friendship with Burrell has resulted in an intimate portrait of a singular mind whose extraordinary career, both as a writer and as a British colonial official, is hallmarked by the creation of 'the Heraldic Universe', an imaginative realm within which the artist reigns supreme.


Through the Dark Labyrinth

Through the Dark Labyrinth

Author: Gordon Bowker

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780312172251

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Traces the life of Durrell, author of "The Alexandria Quartet," and discusses the influence of Eastern religions on his work