Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form - Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters

Summary

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 he wove the moral and formal questions that obsessed him into the fabric of his last three novels.

Product details

• Authors: Greta Matzner-Gore
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780810141971
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-4197-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Studies in Russian Literature; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies