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The Karamazov Case
Dostoevsky's Argument for His Vision
The Karamazov Case
Dostoevsky's Argument for His Vision
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This is a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov that scrutinizes it as a performative event (the “polyphony” of the novel) revealing its religious, philosophical, and social meanings through the interplay of mentalités or worldviews that constitute an aesthetic whole. This way of discerning the novel's social vision of sobornost' (a unity between harmony and freedom), its vision of hope, and its more subtle sacramental presuppositions, raises Tilley's interpretation beyond the standard “theology and literature” treatments of the novel and interpretations that treat the novel as providing solutions to philosophical problems.
Tilley develops Bakhtin's thoughtful analysis of the polyphony of the novel using communication theory and readers/hearer response criticism, and by using Bakhtin's operatic image of polyphony to show the error of taking "faith vs. reason", argues that at the end of the novel, the characters learned to carry on, in a quiet shared commitment to memory and hope.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Reasoning Faith
Chapter 2:
How to Hear a Polyphonic Novel
Chapter 3:
Six Patterns of Rationality and Irrationality
Chapter 4:
Conversions
Chapter 5:
The Unconverted
Chapter 6:
Returning His Ticket and Refusing Freedom
Chapter 7:
The Social Vision of the Novel: Exegesis
Chapter 8:
Sobornost' in The Brothers Karamazov: Analysis
Chapter 9:
The Karamazov Case: “Hurrah for Karamazov”
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 26 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 184 |
| ISBN | 9780567704429 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | T&T Clark Explorations at the Crossroads of Theology and Aesthetics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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