First Words

On Dostoevsky's Introductions

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Av Lewis Bagby

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-07
Mått159 x 238 x 17 mm
Vikt502 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781618114822

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"Students, teachers, and admirers of Dostoevsky’s novels, of whom there are many, will want to have Lewis Bagby’s book at hand or nearby. In this engaging and provocative study, Bagby offers the most extensive analysis to date of what he calls Dostoevsky’s ‘first words,’ the introductions that appear in many of Dostoevsky’s texts...With its hard look at a new, little understood, but absolutely crucial, area of Dostoevsky’s work, Bagby’s study is a useful guide to a significant body of Dostoevsky’s fiction, and is especially well written. Full of sure-handed, solid, refreshing critical analysis, this volume belongs in the top echelon of scholarship about Dostoevsky."