Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and PunishmentBRILL, 1. jan. 2008 - 292 strani Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back “target readers”, young contemporary radicals, from Utilitarianism, nihilism, and Utopian Socialism. Dostoevsky framed the battle in the context of the Orthodox Church and oral tradition versus the West. He relied on knowledge of the Gospels as text received orally, forcing readers to react emotionally, not rationally, and thus undermining the very basis of his opponents’ arguments. Dostoevsky saves Raskol’nikov, underscoring the inadequacy of rational thought and reminding his readers of a heritage discarded at their peril. This volume should be of special interest to secondary and university students, as well as to readers interested in literature, particularly, in Russian literature, and Dostoevsky. |
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Preface | 5 |
Introduction | 9 |
Dostoevsky CounterAttacks | 29 |
Chapter Two The Religious Symbolism of Cloth and Clothing in Crime and Punishment | 67 |
Russias Western Capital | 93 |
Chapter Four The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Crime and Punishment | 143 |
Russian Culture and Western Change | 181 |
Chapter Six The Epilogue Reconsidered | 209 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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Alyona anti-iconic associated bathhouse belief Brothers Karamazov central Chapter characters Chernyshevsky Christ Clint Walker clothing context Crime and Punishment crucial Demons discussion divine Dostoevskii i mirovaia Dostoevskogo Dostoevsky dream emphasis added encounter epilogue essay Eugene Onegin faith Father fiction functions God’s Gogol Gospels Harold Bloom icon iconic ladder importantly inverse perspective issue Katerina Ivanovna kiss Lazarus linked literature Lizaveta Luzhin Marmeladov material Mikhail Bakhtin Mikolka mirovaia kul’tura Moscow Mother murder narrator nightmare nihilism nihilist Notes from Underground novel one’s oral tradition Orthodox Christianity Orthodox Church Orthodox community Parable Paul Friedrich pawnbroker peasant Peter Petersburg Polen’ka Prestuplenie Princeton Prodigal Prodigal Son prostitution Pushkin’s Raskol’nikov rational Razumikhin realized recalls recapitulates redemption religious reminds role Russian culture Russian Orthodox Russian traditional salvation scene significant significantly Slavic Slavophile sobornost song Sonia Sophia suicide Svidrigailov symbol target reader University Press urban Utilitarianism Utopian Socialism visual young