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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “deborah martinsen”
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  • Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment"

    A Reader’s Guide

    by Deborah A. Martinsen ...
    Series series Cultural Syllabus
    Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov’s fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevsky subsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov’s thinking, effecting ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Deborah Martinsen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from execution, his Siberian exile, his gambling addiction, his romantic marriage ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Dostoevsky

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Deborah Martinsen ...
    Narrated by Kitty Hendrix ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy.In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from execution, his Siberian exile, his gambling addiction, his romantic marriage, and his literary success. Martinsen also delves into ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dostoevsky in Context

    Edited by Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Maiorova ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This volume explores the Russia where the great writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81), was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but also on the Russian life that he and his contemporaries experienced: on social practices and historical developments, political and cultural institutions, religious beliefs, ideological trends, artistic conventions and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Lectures on Dostoevsky

    by Joseph Frank ...
    From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918–2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an unparalleled and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. “Of course, and as usual,” she recalls, “I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed.” Kristeva would go on to become one of the most important figures in European intellectual life—and she would return over and over again to Dostoyevsky, still haunted and enraptured by ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

    Edited by Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy's writing. Key ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Resurrection from the Underground

    Feodor Dostoevsky

    by René Girard ...
    Translated by James Williams ...
    Series series Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
    In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian author’s “underground,” a site of isolation, alienation, and resentment. Brilliantly translated, this book is a testament to Girard’s remarkable engagement with Dostoevsky’s work, through which he discusses numerous aspects of the human condition, including desire, which ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by Robert Bird ...
    Series Book 40 - Critical Lives
    Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot – the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most enduring characters. He is acknowledged by critics as a pre-eminent writer of psychological fiction and a precursor of twentieth-century existentialism.Set in the troubled political and social world of nineteenth ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Wonder Confronts Certainty

    Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

    by Gary Saul Morson ...
    An Air Mail Editor’s PickA Spectator Book of the Year“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—*Wall Street Journal *“Wise and authoritative…As the best Russian literature teaches, the emancipation of the human will from all limits and restraints is the path of individual and collective perdition. We should all be grateful to Gary Saul Morson for drawing ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

    Edited by Malcolm V. Jones, Robin Feuer Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Idiot with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a masterpiece of Russian literature. This novel, in which topics such as the meaning of life and the representation of Christ are tackled, tells the story of an innocent and naïve man who loves two women and gets ... Read more

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