Ruttenburg Dostoevsky's Democracy

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2892-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruttenburg, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

The Image of the Beast 1

The Ne To and the "Democrat" 6

The Ne To, the Writer, and the People 21

PART I: Building Out the House of the Dead 29

1. "Why Is This Man Alive?": The Unconsummated Conversion 31

2. The Disarticulation of the Autobiographical Self 41

3. Opposites That Do Not Attract (The Bezdna and Poetic Truth) and Opposites That Do (Estrangement and Conversion) 50

4. The Dostoevskian "As If": Self-Deception in Autobiography 61

5. The Narrator's Eclipse 72

6. Dostoevsky's Poetics of Conviction 82

PART II: Building Out the House of the Dead 91

1. The Chronotope of Katorga 93

2. Exception, Equality, Emancipation 96

3. Ontological Ambiguity in the Space of Exception: Katorga as Medium 105

4. The Ontology of Crime: Testimony/Confession 115

5. The Flesh of the Political 140

• The Grammar of Katorga 141

• Corporeality and Intercorporeality in Katorga 153

• Dostoevsky's Democratic Aesthetic 160

Conclusion 170

The Russian People, This Unriddled Sphinx 170

Carmen Horrendum 170

Bookishness, Literacy, and Becoming Democratic 176

Where Have All the Peasants Gone? 183

Notes 197

Bibliography 251

Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Ruttenburg is professor of comparative literature, English, and Slavic literatures and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship.