Bearing and Sharing All: A Study of the Confessional Moment in Dostoevsky's Life and Fiction
Challenging deconstructive approaches to Dostoevsky's works, the article locates a still-point or higher realism amidst the polyphony of competing voices in the ‘confessional moment’. It argues that his fiction is formed in the crucible of a religious consciousness, and that Dostoevsky's p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2004
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Literature and theology
Year: 2004, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 442-463 |
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| Summary: | Challenging deconstructive approaches to Dostoevsky's works, the article locates a still-point or higher realism amidst the polyphony of competing voices in the ‘confessional moment’. It argues that his fiction is formed in the crucible of a religious consciousness, and that Dostoevsky's primary debts are to Orthodox culture, in particular, in direct relation to the theologically rich sacrament of confession. Enlisting and reappraising the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Vyacheslav Ivanov, and also of Dostoevsky's disciple, Vladimir Solovyov, the article establishes the structural presence of a trialogue between confessor, penitent and the scripturally warranted Word or ‘Other’. It then goes on to explore one such ‘confessional moment’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/18.4.442 |