Profane challenge and orthodox response in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" /

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Author / Creator:	Tucker, Janet G.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (285 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 52 Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 52.
Subject:	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881. -- Prestuplenie i nakazanie -- Criticism and interpretation. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881. Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186727

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ISBN:	9781435695375 1435695372 9789042024946 9042024941
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back "target readers", young contemporary radicals, from Utilitarianism, nihilism, and Utopian Socialism. Dostoevsky framed the battle in the context of the Orthodox Church and oral tradition versus the West. He relied on knowledge of the Gospels as text received orally , forcing readers to react emotionally, not rationally, and thus undermining the very basis of his opponents' arguments. Dostoevsky saves Raskol'nikov, underscoring the inadequacy of rational thought and reminding his readers of a heritage discarded at their peril. This volume should be of special interest to secondary and university students, as well as to readers interested in literature, particularly, in Russian literature, and Dostoevsky.
Other form:	Print version: Tucker, Janet G. Profane challenge and orthodox response in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008 9789042024946 9042024941

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