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OverviewConfronting Bakhtin’s formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers—and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approach Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art. Challenging, revising, and expanding on Mikhail Bakhtin’s foundational analysis in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Patyk demonstrates that provocation is the moving mover of Dostoevsky’s poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and capture our attention. Yet the full scope of Dostoevsky’s provocative authorial activity can only be grasped alongside an understanding of his key themes, which both probed and exploited the most divisive conflicts of his era. The ultimate stakes of such friction are, for him, nothing less than moral responsibility and the truth of identity. Sober and strikingly original, compassionate but not uncritical, Dostoevsky’s Provocateurs exposes the charged current in the wiring of our modern selves. In an economy of attention and its spoils, provocation is an inexhaustibly renewable and often toxic resource. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynn Ellen PatykPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780810145733ISBN 10: 0810145731 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction. “Why don’t we reduce all this reasonableness to dust”: An Introduction to Dostoevskian Provocation Chapter 1. “Or I am not I”: Ontological Provocation in The Double Chapter 2. “I’ll say it in the whole world’s face”: Provoking Confession and Provoking Comedy in Notes from Underground Chapter 3. “That a girl!” Dostoevsky’s Feminist Provocation in The Idiot Chapter 4. “No one is pleased and everyone is angry”: The Diary of a Right-Wing Provocateur Chapter 5. “But the Devil was overcome”: The End of Provocation in The Brothers Karamazov Conclusion. “I came not to send peace”: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Provocative AuthorshipReviewsA fantastically interesting and provocative book. Dostoevsky's Provocateurs constitutes a particularly timely and rich contribution to Dostoevsky scholarship, work on Russian thought, media and cultural studies, and the field of sociological approaches to literature. --Kate Holland, author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Northwestern University Press, 2013) A tour de force--Patyk's conception of provocation as the driving dynamics of Dostoevsky's poetics and their implication of the reader rings true on every page. Brimming with brilliant, revealing interpretations that integrate A Writer's Diary convincingly with the author's novels, Dostoevsky's Provocateurs is set to become a vital touchstone for generations of scholars and students to come. --Sarah Young, author of Dostoevsky's The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative: Reading, Narrating, Scripting A fantastically interesting and provocative book. Dostoevsky's Provocateurs constitutes a particularly timely and rich contribution to Dostoevsky scholarship, work on Russian thought, media and cultural studies, and the field of sociological approaches to literature. --Kate Holland, author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s (Northwestern University Press, 2013) Author InformationLYNN ELLEN PATYK is an associate professor of Russian at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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