First words : on Dostoevsky's introductions / Lewis Bagby.

By:

Bagby, Lewis, 1944- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Unknown nineteenth centuryPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016Description: 1 electronic resource (xxii, 198 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781618114839
1618114832
9781618116819
1618116819

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: First wordsDDC classification:

891.733 23

LOC classification:

PG3328.Z6

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

1. Model prefaces from Russian literature -- 2. Dostoevsky's initial post-Siberian work -- 3. Playing with authorial identities -- 4. Monsters roam the text -- 5. Re-contextualizing introductions -- 6. Anxious to the end -- Conclusion.

Summary: Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and?A Gentle Creature.? Despite his clever attempts to call his readers? attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky?s introductions. Using Genette?s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin?s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky?s first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky?s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.

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Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and?A Gentle Creature.? Despite his clever attempts to call his readers? attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky?s introductions. Using Genette?s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin?s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky?s first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky?s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.