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"To Write a Great Story": Margiad Evans' Illness Narratives [PDF]
Margiad Evans’s Ray of Darkness (1952) attempts to make sense of the onset of her epilepsy. Recognising her own compulsion to tell the story of her illness, she believes simultaneously that the condition separates her from the understanding of healthy ...
Asbee, Sue
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The article analyzes the searches conducted by F. M. Dostoevsky and V. F. Odoevsky for a “positively excellent” hero. It compares the images of Prince Myshkin from The Idiot and the hero of the dramatic excerpt Segeliel, or Don Quixote of the XIX century.
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Nietzsche and the Prince [PDF]
The main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot is a devout Orthodox Christian named Prince Myshkin. Friedrich Nietzsche, who is intensely critical of Christianity, and Myshkin share the same views on shame and pity despite their apparent ...
Ferguson, Ian
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Originality, Decorum, and Fantastic Sight in Dostoevsky\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Idiot\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “fantastic realism” penetrates reality’s surface to reveal what he refers to as the “moral center” of reality and, in the process, transfigures readers.
Decker, Richard A
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Begging the Earth\u27s Forgiveness: Russian Folklore in the Novels of F. M. Dostoevsky [PDF]
The pervading theme of Dostoevsky\u27s novels is humanity\u27s need to discover meaning in the natural world and in human experience. For generations, the Russian peasantry created myths and folk tales in order to understand the workings of Damp Mother ...
Chia-Klesch, Wendy Kristine
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Beyond the Imagery: The Encounters of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky with an Image of the Dead Christ [PDF]
Through an analysis of Kierkegaard’s and Dostoevsky’s approaches to the theme of the death of Christ – one of the major leitmotifs in the debate of their contemporaries conveyed through theological and philosophical considerations, but also expressed in ...
Kaftanski, Wojciech
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The culture of justice: reflections on punishment in Dostoevsky's The Idiot [PDF]
The article investigates Dostoevsky's juridical discourse and demonstrates that the apologist of the Russian soul had a genuinely European mind. In his novel The Idiot in particular, in which the death penalty and imprisonment are explored, Dostoevsky ...
Zink, Andrea
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The images of righteous people in their love for creation in F. M. Dostoyevsky’s work (Prince Myshkin, Makar Ivanovich, Markel, Zosima) are considered in the minor time (the writer’s epoch) and the major time (M. M.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Medvedev
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Negative Epistemic Exemplars [PDF]
In this chapter, we address the roles that exemplars might play in a comprehensive response to epistemic injustice. Fricker defines epistemic injustices as harms people suffer specifically in their capacity as (potential) knowers. We focus on testimonial
Alfano, Mark, Sullivan, Emily
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