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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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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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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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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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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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The Poetry of Prose: Readings in Russian Literature [PDF]
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 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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INTRODUCTION. An analysis of the sustained metaphor of “purgatory” is conducted, which unites I.S. Shmelyov’s later literary-critical essay “On Dostoevsky” with the novel “The Idiot” (1949) and his autofiction “Pilgrimage” (1931).
A. V. Markov
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s and Flannery O’Connor’s Use of the Grotesque: Irrational or Mysterious? [PDF]
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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