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| Named Person: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Fedor M Dostoevskij |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Kaye |
| ISBN: | 0521623588 9780521623582 |
| OCLC Number: | 39633413 |
| Description: | viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Prophetic rage and rivalry: D. H. Lawrence -- 3. A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf -- 4. Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett -- 5. Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad -- 6. Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Kaye. |
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Abstract:
A study of the responses of major English novelists of the early twentieth century to Dostoevsky's work.
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'The achievement of Kaye's book is its gathering together of different cases of influence ... it does present some plausible and fresh readings of modernist texts which reveal Dostoevsky's presence where it hasn't always been appreciated. In Woolf's essays Modern Fiction, for example; or The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, which is deftly compared to The Possessed.' The Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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Related Subjects:(23)
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
- Russian fiction -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 -- Influence.
- English literature -- Russian influences.
- English fiction -- Russian influences.
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Roman russe -- Appréciation -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Littérature anglaise -- Influence russe.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Receptie.
- Dostoevskij, Fedor M.
- Schriftsteller.
- Moderne.
- Roman.
- Rezeption.
- Literatur.
- England.
- Englisch.
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