A new word on The brothers Karamazov / edited by Robert Louis Jackson ; with an introductory essay by Robin Feuer Miller and a concluding one by William Mills Todd III.

Other author Jackson, Robert Louis.
Format Book
Publication InfoEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxii, 261 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesStudies in Russian literature and theory
Studies in Russian literature and theory. ^A353396
Contents The brothers Karamazov today / Robin Feuer Miller -- Refiguring the Russian type : Dostoevsky and the limits of realism / Robert Bird -- Mothers and sons in The brothers Karamazov : our ladies of Skotoprigonevsk / Liza Knapp -- Shame's rhetoric, or, Ivan's devil, Karamazov soul / Deborah A. Martinsen -- Two fates : Zosima's bow and what Rakitin said / Tatyana Buzina -- Struggle for theosis : Smerdyakov as would-be saint / Lee D. Johnson -- Accidental families and surrogate fathers : Richard, Grigory, and Smerdyakov / Vladimir Golstein -- The god of onions : The brothers Karamazov and the mythic prosaic / Gary Saul Morson -- Did Dostoevsky or Tolstoy believe in miracles? / Donna Orwin -- The sexuality of the male virgin : Arkady in A raw youth and Alyosha Karamazov / Susanne Fusso -- Zosima's "mysterious visitor" : again Bakhtin on Dostoevsky, and Dostoevsky on heaven and hell / Caryl Emerson -- Dostoevsky, genius of evocation : the scene of Fyodor Karamazov's murder and its symbolic topography / Horst-Jürgen Gerigk -- The legend of the ladonka and the trial of the novel / Kate Holland -- Sensual mind : the pain and pleasure of thinking / Marina Kostalevsky -- The Jewish question and The brothers Karamazov / Maxim D. Shrayer -- Alyosha's speech at the stone : "the whole picture" / Robert Louis Jackson -- The brothers Karamazov tomorrow / William Mills Todd III.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2003006961
ISBN0810119498 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810119501 (pbk. : alk. paper)