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" Dostoevsky's dialectics and the problem of sin / "
Ksana Blank.
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BL
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841147
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Blank, Ksana.
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Dostoevsky's dialectics and the problem of sin /\ Ksana Blank.
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Evanston, Ill. :: Northwestern University Press,, 2010.
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Studies in Russian literature and theory
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x, 170 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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0810126931
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: 9780810126930
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-162) and index.
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Introduction: -- Approaches to Dostoevsky -- Why dialectics? -- A model for Dostoevsky's dialectics -- Thesis, antithesis, and sin -- The principle of Dvuedinstvo (duality-in-unity) -- Antinomies of goodness, beauty, and truth -- Bakhtin's dialogism and Dostoevsky's (non-Hegelian) dialectics -- How this book is structured -- A word on methodology -- Part 1: The dialectic of goodness -- 1. "If you don't sin, you can't repent; if you don't repent, you can't achieve salvation" -- Controversies about the epilogue to Crime and punishment -- Saint Andrew of Crete and Dostoevsky's great sinners -- Raskolnikov at the door of repentance -- 2. A ray of light in the abyss -- Dmitry Karamazov's journey to the underworld -- The turning point -- The way of the grain -- 3. "The devil begins with froth on the lips of an angel" -- The cherub Alyosha Karamazov -- From saints to sinners: The spectrum of possibilities -- The novel's ending in light of the projected sequel -- Part 2: The dialectic of beauty -- 4. The corridor of mirrors in The idiot -- Krasivoe and Prekrasnoe: Two conceptions of beauty -- Beauty and charm (Prelest') -- Beauty, passion, and compassion: The novel's finale -- 5. A grain of eros in the Madonna, a spark of beauty in Sodom -- Madonna and Sodom -- The European aesthetic ideal of the Madonna -- The Madonna cult in Russian literature -- Part 3: The dialectic of truth -- 6. Dostoevsky's case for contradictions -- Pravda and Istina, two conceptions of truth -- High and low truth (Pravda) in notes from underground -- The birth of polarities in "The dream of a ridiculous man" -- 7. Antinomic truth (Istina) -- The principle of contradiction in Russian religious thought -- Pavel Florensky and Mikhail Bakhtin on antinomic (dialogic) truth -- Two truths in The Brothers Karamazov: Pro and contra.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881-- Philosophy.
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Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor Mikhaĭlovich,1821-1881-- Studies.
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Dostoevskij, Fedor M.
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Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič, 1821-1881
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Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Dialektik.
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Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Motiv-- Sünde.
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Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Philosophie und Weltanschauung.
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Dostoevskij, Fedor Michajlovič-- Religion.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881.
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Dialectic in literature.
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Paradox in literature.
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Sin in literature.
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Das Böse.
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Das Gute.
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Dialectic in literature.
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Dialektik
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Dialektik.
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Dualismus
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Dualität.
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Paradox in literature.
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Paradoxon.
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Philosophy.
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Reue.
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Schönheit.
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Sin in literature.
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Sünde
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Sünde.
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Wahrheit.
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| Dewey Classification
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891.73/3
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PG3328.Z7P5323 2010
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891.783
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