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'Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience' deals with the religious dimension of the novelist’s life and fiction. The book is structured through six clearly defined and self-reliant essays that take into account past and current criticism and offers a close textual analysis on Dostoevsky's works, including 'The Double', 'Notes from Underground', 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Devils' and an in-depth study of 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

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'Covering several major works, but focusing above all on The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience offers a highly distinctive holistic approach which reconciles disparate readings, and confirms Malcolm Jones's pre-eminent position within Dostoevsky studies today.' Sarah Young, University of Toronto

'A book that should not be overlooked by any serious student of Dostoevsky.' William J Leatherbarrow, University of Sheffield 'Covering several major works, but focusing above all on The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience offers a highly distinctive holistic approach which reconciles disparate readings, and confirms Malcolm Jones's pre-eminent position within Dostoevsky studies today.' Sarah Young, University of Toronto 'This book moves the study of Dostoevsky's religious worldview into the twenty-first century, and will be of value to the scholar and the non-specialist alike.' Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds This book moves the study of Dostoevsky's religious worldview into the twenty-first century, and will be of value to the scholar and the non-specialist alike. --Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds A book that should not be overlooked by any serious student of Dostoevsky. --William J. Leatherbarrow, University of Sheffield Covering several major works, but focusing above all on The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience offers a highly distinctive holistic approach which reconciles disparate readings, and confirms Malcolm Jones's pre-eminent position within Dostoevsky's studies today. --Sarah Young, University of Toronto

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Malcolm Jones is Emeritus Professor in Residence at the University of Nottingham. He is a former President of the International Dostoevsky Society, of which he was a founding member in 1971, and this brings him into regular and frequent contact with other Dostoevsky scholars in Russia. One of the foremost scholars on Dostoevsky, his publications include 'Dostoevsky after Bakhtin' (1990) and 'Dostoevsky: The Novel of Discord' (1976).

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