Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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ТНЕ ТНЕМЕ OF HOLY FOOLISHNESS IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY
The article deals with the reflection of lexical units of the theme “foolishness” in F.M. Dos-toevsky’s “The Idiot”, gives a typology of characters with traits characteristic of holy fools, highlighting their characteristics in the aspect of the ...
V B Gomes Dias, I A Leksina
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“Are you Navajo or Inuit?” Identity, television dialogue, and Indigenizing semiotics
Abstract This study analyzes Indigenizing semiotic tactics in television narratives from the United States, combining corpus linguistic methodology with a theoretical framing inspired by linguistic anthropology. Given recent changes in the US television landscape, we analyze two landmark series with First Nations showrunners: Reservation Dogs and ...
Monika Bednarek, Barbra A. Meek
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Gnostic Myth About Salvator Salvatis and Its Elements in F.M. Dostoyevsky's Novel "The Idiot" [PDF]
In the article the structure of the soteriological myth about Salvator salvatus (the saved Saviour), based on material of the early Christian text “The Hymn of the Pearl” from the “Acts of Thomas” is presented; it is the key to understanding of a number ...
Ekaterina V. Moskvina
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Problems of Studying the Handwritten and Printed Text of Dostoevsky’s Novel "Idiot" [PDF]
The article is devoted to the textual analysis of the manuscripts and printed text of Dostoevsky’s novel «Idiot». The study allows to clarify the dates of some author’s notes and to discover new facts on the history of the text and the creative history ...
Natalia A. Tarasova
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ABSTRACT Background Despite advances in diabetes care, many people with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) still experience persistent hyperglycaemia, leading to reduced quality of life and increased risk of long‐term complications. For some, this hyperglycaemia is linked to factors like co‐morbidities, socio‐economic challenges, or low health literacy.
Berit Kjærside Nielsen +5 more
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Images of Books in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot. Review of the Collective Monograph: Kasatkina, Tatiana A., Corbella, Caterina, Magaril-Il’iaeva, Tatiana G., and Nikolay N. Podosokorsky. Books in the Book. The Role and Image of Books in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot. Ed. T.A. Kasatkina. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. 392 p [PDF]
The review examines the collective monograph by Tatiana Kasatkina, Caterina Corbella, Tatiana Magaril-Il’iaeva, and Nikolay Podosokorsky titled Books in the Book. The Role and Image of Books in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot (Ed. T.A.
Valentina V. Borisova
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Abstract This paper argues that Nietzsche is deliberately imprecise in his characterization of what he calls the slave revolt in morality. In particular, none of the people or groups he nominates as instigators of the slave revolt, namely, Jewish priests, the Jewish people, the prophets, Jesus, and Paul, were literally slaves.
Ken Gemes
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Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical
Abstract As musical theater has gained traction with younger audiences, producers have put out numerous new shows that focus on the modern high school experience in an attempt to capture this target audience. Social media has moved beyond being an off‐stage marketing tactic and has since warped into an on‐stage plot device to feel authentic to ...
Emry Sottile
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