Dostoevskys Provocateurs Patyk Lynn Ellen
Dostoevskys Provocateurs Patyk Lynn Ellen Confronting Bakhtin's formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers--and to explore the reasons behind…
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Dostoevskys Provocateurs Patyk Lynn Ellen
Confronting Bakhtin's formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers--and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approachLike so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky's deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. Challenging, revising, and expanding on Mikhail Bakhtin's foundational analysis in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Patyk demonstrates that provocation is the moving mover of Dostoevsky's poetics of conflict, and she identifies the literary devices he uses to propel plot conflict and capture our attention. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art.
Yet the full scope of Dostoevsky's provocative authorial activity can only be grasped alongside an understanding of his