Dostoevsky as a translator of Balzac / Julia Titus.

"The focus of this study in comparative criticism is close analysis of Dostoevsky's first literary publication-his 1844 translation of the first edition of Balzac's "Eugénie Grandet" (1834)-and the stylistic choices that he made as a young writer while working on Balzac'...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Titus, Julia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2022.
Series:Studies in comparative literature and intellectual history.
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION
  • Introduction THE ACTING SUBJECT OF BAKHTIN
  • The Question of Subject(ivity)
  • The Acting Subject
  • Bakhtin and His Others
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 1 : BAKHTIN AND LUKÁCS: SUBJECTIVITY, SIGNIFYING FORM AND TEMPORALITY IN THE NOVEL
  • Introduction: Bakhtin and Lukács
  • Subject and Signifying Form: The Early Bakhtin and the Early Lukács
  • From the Quest for Totality to a Polyphony of Voices: Hegel, Lukács, Bakhtin
  • Subjectivity and Temporality in the Novel
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Chapter 2 : BAKHTIN, WATT AND THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
  • Novelistic Turning Points and the Eighteenth-Century Novel According to Bakhtin
  • The Early Eighteenth-Century Novel: Watt and Anglo-American Criticism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 3 : CONCEPTS OF NOVELISTIC POLYPHONY: PERSON-RELATED AND COMPOSITIONAL-THEMATIC
  • Introduction: Polyphonies of the Novel
  • Bakhtin: Polyphony as Polysubjectivity
  • The Romantic Idea of the Musical Composition of a Literary Work of Art: Friedrich Schlegel
  • The Polyphonic Composition of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.
  • Polyphony as the Principle of Composition of a 'Novel in the Form of Variations': Milan Kundera
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 4 : FAMILIAR OTHERNESS: PECULIARITIES OF DIALOGUE IN EZRA POUND'S POETICS OF INCLUSION
  • Hieratic Head
  • Encountering Hades
  • Walking with Kung
  • Guide to Otherness
  • The Pattern Persists
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 5 : AUTHOR AND OTHER IN DIALOGUE: BAKHTINIAN POLYPHONY IN THE POETRY OF PETER READING
  • The Problem of Bakhtinian Terminology and Poetry
  • Polyphony and the Poetic Text
  • Peter Reading's Polyphonic Poetry
  • Polyphony as Macroscopic Structure
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Chapter 6 : TRADITION AND GENRE: THOMAS KYD'S The Spanish Tragedy
  • The Tradition of Neo-Latin Drama in Kyd's Time
  • Source Study and 'Ideological Colloquy'
  • Kyd, Speech Genres and Literary History
  • The Spanish Tragedy and Conversation
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 7 : BAKHTIN'S CONCEPT OF THE CHRONOTOPE: THE VIEWPOINT OF AN ACTING SUBJECT
  • Bakhtin's Concept of Chronotope: An Epistemological Category?
  • The Bildungsroman: Seeing the Acting Subject in History
  • Chronotopes: Forms of the Time of Human Action as Conditioned by Concrete Circumstances
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Chapter 8 THE PROVINCIAL CHRONOTOPE AND MODERNITY IN CHEKHOV'S SHORT FICTION
  • The Provincial Chronotope and the Idyll
  • The Provincial Poshlost
  • Provincial Longing and Narrative (Un)predictability
  • Notes
  • References
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.