This is an exploration of Dostoevsky's major works, with a focus on his women characters, his references to rape and men's abuse of females, and his construction of the feminine. The book is intended not to impose feminist ideology upon the writer, but to enlarge feminist discourse through Dostoevsky. It explores new readings with a sense of their positioning at the end of the century without subsuming the woman question within a larger frame.
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Straus draws on feminist critique to reread Dostoevsky.,
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This book demonstrates what difference it makes for our overall vision of Dostoevsky if we take his writings about women seriously. Straus leaves us with new questions about women's relations to the problem of male power, to skepticism about religion, and it throws new light on how Dostoevsky can be read in the future.
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While feminist approaches to Dostoevsky's other novels may be promising, the murder-of-women and salvation plot of Crime and Punishment offers the most concentrated exposure of the relation between a young man's experience of violence toward women and the construction of his masculine identity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
beaten mare, female pawnbroker, holy foolishness, eternal husband, gentle creature, fantastic realism, underground man, emancipated women, ridiculous man, female suicides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Mother Russia, Prince Christ, Yevgeny Pavlovich, Fyodor Karamazov, Maria Lebyadkina, Nastasya Filippovna, Pavel Pavlovich, Pyotr Verkhovensky, The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, Anna Karenina, Katerina Ivanovna, Nastasya Filipovna, Dmitri Karamazov, Freud's Dora, George Sand, Lady Luck, Louis Breger, Prince Myshkin, Alexander Lobov, Anna Snitkina, Elizabeth Dalton, Raw Youth, Simone de Beauvoir New!
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While feminist approaches to Dostoevsky's other novels may be promising, the murder-of-women and salvation plot of Crime and Punishment offers the most concentrated exposure of the relation between a young man's experience of violence toward women and the construction of his masculine identity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
beaten mare, female pawnbroker, holy foolishness, eternal husband, gentle creature, fantastic realism, underground man, emancipated women, ridiculous man, female suicides Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Mother Russia, Prince Christ, Yevgeny Pavlovich, Fyodor Karamazov, Maria Lebyadkina, Nastasya Filippovna, Pavel Pavlovich, Pyotr Verkhovensky, The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, Anna Karenina, Katerina Ivanovna, Nastasya Filipovna, Dmitri Karamazov, Freud's Dora, George Sand, Lady Luck, Louis Breger, Prince Myshkin, Alexander Lobov, Anna Snitkina, Elizabeth Dalton, Raw Youth, Simone de Beauvoir New!
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- The brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble classics) by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky on 42 pages
- Crime and Punishment (Dodo Press) by Fyodor Dostoevsky on 30 pages
- Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky on 30 pages
- A Gentle Creature and other stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky on 23 pages
- The Diary of a Writer by Fedor Mikhalovich Dostoevsky on 11 pages
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- From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer (Reading Women Writing) by Louise Yelin on page 124, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by W. J. Leatherbarrow in Back Matter
- Dostoevsky (Life&Times) by Richard Freeborn in Back Matter
- Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Personalism, Feminism, and Polyphony (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Svetlana Grenier in Back Matter
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