The Devils (also translated as The Possessed) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book is the first full-length English-language study of The Devils to examine the novel as a unified whole. Its approach is based upon recognition of a...

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Main Author:	Anderson, Nancy K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] Lang 1997
Series:	Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature 8
Subjects:	Dostoevskij, Fedor M / Besy Dostoevskij, Fedor Mihailovič, 1821-1881 / Bʹesy Dostoyevsky, Fyodor <1821-1881> > Besy Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič > 1821-1881 > Besy Boze geesten (Dostojevski) Hochschulschrift
Summary:	The Devils (also translated as The Possessed) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This book is the first full-length English-language study of The Devils to examine the novel as a unified whole. Its approach is based upon recognition of a central theme of Dostoevsky's thought: the human need of and search for an ideal transcending the needs and demands of one's own self Such an ideal may be expressed in many spheres - in religion, in the relations between human beings, and in aesthetics. As this work demonstrates, The Devils is a powerful psychological and sociological study of what occurs when the ideal of transcendence is denied in each of these spheres and a perverted ideal - an anti-ideal - is set up in its place
Item Description:	Zugl.: Yale Univ., Diss., 1994
Physical Description:	173 S.
ISBN:	0820433187