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Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the "mystery" of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by characters seeking to lose themselves within larger collective selves, Yuri Corrigan approaches the fictional works as a continuous experimental canvas on which Dostoevsky explored the problem of selfhood through recurring symbolic and narrative paradi...

Premier playwright of modern theater and trailblazer of the short story, Anton Chekhov was also a practising doctor, journalist, writer of comic sketches, philanthropist and activist. This volume provides an accessible guide to Chekhov's multifarious interests and influences, with over 30 succinct chapters covering his rich intellectual milieu and his tumultuous socio-political environment, as well as the legacy of his work in over two centuri...

Explores Dostoevsky's literary career as an extended meditation on the question of "what is a human being?" Presenting new readings of such works as The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Adolescent, and The Insulted and Injured, it resolves what appear to be mutually exclusive interpretations of the self in Dostoevsky's work by previous scholars.

Explores Dostoevsky's literary career as an extended meditation on the question of "what is a human being?" Presenting new readings of such works as The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Adolescent, and The Insulted and Injured, it resolves what appear to be mutually exclusive interpretations of the self in Dostoevsky's work by previous scholars.