First words : on Dostoevsky's introductions  First Words: On Dostoevsky's Introductions 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2221271B

  Author(s)

  Bagby, Lewis

  City

  Boston 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781618114822 

  Date of Publication

  2015 

  Publisher

  Academic Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  198 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Literary Criticism

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Bagby, Lewis

  Publisher

  Academic Press  

• Description

  First Words: On Dostoevsky's Introductions 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.