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Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction. “Why don’t we reduce all this reasonableness to dust”: An Introduction to Dostoevskian Provocation
  • Chapter 1. “Or I am not I”: Ontological Provocation in The Double
  • Chapter 2. “I’ll say it in the whole world’s face”: Provoking Confession and Provoking Comedy in Notes from Underground
  • Chapter 3. “That a girl!” Dostoevsky’s Feminist Provocation in The Idiot
  • Chapter 4. “No one is pleased and everyone is angry”: The Diary of a Right-Wing Provocateur
  • Chapter 5. “But the Devil was overcome”: The End of Provocation in The Brothers Karamazov
  • Conclusion. “I came not to send peace”: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Provocative Authorship

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810145726, 978-0810145726
      ISBN10: 0810145723
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious. In this book, Lynn Ellen Patyk singles out these forms of incitement as a communicative strategy that drives his paradoxical art.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction. “Why don’t we reduce all this reasonableness to dust”: An Introduction to Dostoevskian Provocation
      • Chapter 1. “Or I am not I”: Ontological Provocation in The Double
      • Chapter 2. “I’ll say it in the whole world’s face”: Provoking Confession and Provoking Comedy in Notes from Underground
      • Chapter 3. “That a girl!” Dostoevsky’s Feminist Provocation in The Idiot
      • Chapter 4. “No one is pleased and everyone is angry”: The Diary of a Right-Wing Provocateur
      • Chapter 5. “But the Devil was overcome”: The End of Provocation in The Brothers Karamazov
      • Conclusion. “I came not to send peace”: Problems in Dostoevsky’s Provocative Authorship

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