Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent

by Barnhart, Joe E.; Barnhart, : Joe; Wood, Ralph C.; Stiver, Dan R.; Taylor, Aaron; Barnhart, Joe; Kraeger, Linda; Avsey, Ignat; Stamey, Joseph D.; Terras, Victor; McLachlan, James M.; Souris, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780761830986
• ISBN10: 0761830987
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Dostoevsky wrote and thought polyphonically. His polyphonic method is present in both his special literary technique and his distinctive way of probing theological, social, and philosophical depths. This collection of original papers from scholars at two Dostoevsky conferences at the University of North Texas focuses on how Dostoevsky's literary art and philosophical insights enrich one another.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: Hearing Voices	ix
Joe Barnhart
Rival Ideologies
Dostoevsky on Evil as a Perversion of Personhood: A Reading of Ivan Karamazov and the Grand Inquisitor	1	(24)
Ralph C. Wood
Still Too High a Price? Ivan's Question in the Light of Contemporary Theodicy	25	(16)
Dan R. Stiver
Encountering the Incarnate Subject: Dostoevsky's Fiction As an Embodiment of and Contribution to Orthodox Theology	41	(36)
Aaron Taylor
Dostoevsky and the Historical Christ	77	(14)
Joe Barhnart
Dostoevsky and Alienation	91	(14)
Linda Kraeger
Family Voices in Conflict
The Karamazovs---a Paradigm in Dysfunctionality	105	(26)
Ignat Avsey
Son and Fathers: The Character of Dominant Ideas and the Ideas of Dominant Characters in A Raw Youth	131	(12)
Joseph D. Stamey
Contracts with Fate: Dostoevsky's Characters	143	(10)
Joe Barnhart
The Village of Stepanchikovo or ``There's a man with no clothes on!''	153	(18)
Ignat Avsey
Going Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground	171	(14)
Victor Terras
Schelling, Dostoevsky, and Chernychevsky: Egoism, Freedom and Madness in Notes from Underground	185	(20)
James M. McLachlan
The Literary Artist's Fantastic Realism
The French and the Russian Underground Man: Dostoevsky and Montherlant	205	(14)
Victor Terras
``Living at Double Intensity'': Dialogized Consciousness, the Question of Satire, and the Ethics of Representation in Dostoyevsky's Poor Folk	219	(18)
Stephen Souris
The Translator's Tale in the Bible and Dostoevskyland	237	(10)
Ignat Avsey
Brief Biographies of the Authors	247