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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s and Flannery O’Connor’s Use of the Grotesque: Irrational or Mysterious? [PDF]
, 2008 Both Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O’Connor used the grotesque to portray their beliefs about human nature. Both believed that mystery is a crucial element of truth and humanity’s understanding is limited.
Marken, Kyra E
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The Poetry of Prose: Readings in Russian Literature [PDF]
, 2017 In prose, and especially in narrative prose, the poetic system of repetitive parallel elements is less conspicuous than in verse composition. And yet the poetry of narrative prose is likewise brought about by elaborate systems of parallels and ...
Børtnes, Jostein
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The apotheosis of intellectual disability in fictional literature. [PDF]
Postep Psychiatr Neurol, 2021 Podlecka M, Pietras T, Sipowicz K.
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The early Wittgenstein, Tolstoy’s Kurze Darlegung des Evangelium and Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist [PDF]
, 2011 To understand the religious background to Wittgenstein’s work and the man himself, it is helpful to bear in mind the Catholic education his mother gave him from infancy, and to take note of at least some of the authors who influenced him in this area ...
Llinares Chover, Joan B.
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, 2013 In this paper, I will examine a number of treatments of the notion of “the idiot” (along the way touching on some satellite concepts such as event, cosmopolitics, process, the virtual) in order to explore the potential uses of the idiot in the ‘doings ...
Michael, Mike
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Prince Myshkin Rewritten by Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pasternak
Проблемы исторической поэтикиThe article is devoted to the reinterpretations of the main character of Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot” in the novels of Tolstoy and Pasternak (“Resurrection” and “Doctor Zhivago”) and in Chekhov’s short novel “My Life.” At the same time, Tolstoy’s novel is considered as a kind of hybrid hypertext of Dostoevsky’s works (“The Idiot” and “Notes from the ...
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The Cowl - v.53 - n.35 - Apr. 12, 1989 [PDF]
, 1989 The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume LVVI - Number 35 - April 12, 1989.
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Murmurs of Revolution: Mythical Subversion in Dostoevsky [PDF]
, 2020 Throughout history, revolutions have been plagued by unpredictability; it is all but impossible to know when cultural systems will be turned on their heads. Is there a common motivator, to predict social unrest bubbling beneath the surface of society?
Guetersloh, Connor
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"A Positive Failure": Holy Foolishness, Paradox, and Narrative in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" [PDF]
, 2018 The paradoxical and seemingly unredemptive ending of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" informs the reception of the novel as a failure; in this paper, the author argues that the novel's perceived failure and weaknesses serve a problematic ad hoc ending ...
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Human Security and The Idiot: “Can Beauty Really Save the World” [PDF]
A key point of progress in the systematic considerations of the causality and cessation of violent conflict is found in the evolving idea of human security.
Tyler, Aaron
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