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" The boundaries of genre : "
by Gary Saul Morson.
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BL
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892356
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| Main Entry
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Morson, Gary Saul,1948-
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The boundaries of genre : : Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer and the traditions of literary utopia /\ by Gary Saul Morson.
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| Publication Statement
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Evanston, IL :: Northwestern University Press,, [1981]
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, ©1981
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| Series Statement
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Northwestern University Press paperbacks
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xiv, 219 pages ;; 23 cm
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0810108119
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: 9780810108110
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Dostoevsky's icon of chaos -- Threshold art -- Utopia as a literary genre -- Recontextualizations.
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| Abstract
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Using Dostoevsky's most radical experiment in literary form as a springboard, Gary Saul Morson examines a number of key topics in contemporary literary theory, including the nature of literary genres and their relation to interpretation. He convincingly argues that genre is not a property of texts alone but arises from the interaction between texts and readers. Observing that changing conventions of interpretation and classifciation may alter the perception of particular works, Morson considers a number of problematic texts that have been read according to two contradictory sets of conventions - "boundary works" - and a futher group of texts - "threshold works" such as Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer - that were evidently designed by their authors to exploit this kind of hermeneutic ambivalence. Morson explores the nature of the literary utopia and its parodic form, the anti-utopia, and, returning to Dostoevsky's Diary as his example, a third form which exists as a sort of open dialogue of utopia and anti-utopia.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,1821-1881., Dnevnik pisateli︠a︡.
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in literature.
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Dnevnik pisateli︠a︡ (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
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| Dewey Classification
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891.78/3/07
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| LC Classification
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PG3325.A16D638 1981
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891.783
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Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer and the traditions of literary utopia
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