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The Novel in the Age of Disintegration. Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s.
Kate Holland
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Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland brings historical context to bear, showing that Dostoevsky wanted to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting disintegration brought on by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire belief in social and spiritual reintegration, so he returned to some older conventions of a society that was already becoming ... Read more
Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky’s career. In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland brings historical context to bear, showing that Dostoevsky wanted to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting disintegration brought on by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s. This required him to reinvent the genre. At the same time he sought to infuse his novels with the capacity to inspire belief in social and spiritual reintegration, so he returned to some older conventions of a society that was already becoming ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129269
SKU
V9780810129269
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About Kate Holland
Kate Holland is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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