Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Notes on conventions and abbreviations; Introduction: reading Dostoevsky religiously George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson; Part I. Dostoevsky and the Practice of Orthodoxy: 1. Dostoevsky and the kenotic tradition Margaret Ziolkowski; 2. Dostoevsky's markings in the Gospel according to St John Irina Kirillova; 3. Icons in Dostoevsky's works Sophie Ollivier; 4. Problems of the biblical word in Dostoevsky's poetics Dianne Oenning Thompson; Part II. Dostoevsky and Christian Theology: 5. Dostoevsky in the prism of the orthodox semiosphere Avril Pyman; 6. The categories of law and grace in Dostoevsky's poetics Ivan Esaulov; 7. The Brothers Karamazov as trinitarian theology David S. Cunningham; 8. Reading and incarnation in Dostoevsky Eric J. Ziolkowski; Part III. Reading Dostoevsky Religiously: Case Studies: 9. Towards an iconography of Crime and Punishment Anthony Johae; 10. Pavel Smerdyakov and Ivan Karamazov: the problem of temptation Vladimir Kantor; 11. Beyond the will: humiliation as Christian necessity in Crime and Punishment Henry M. W. Russell; 13. Freedom's dangerous dialogue: reading Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard together George Pattison; Bibliography; Index.

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This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work.

About the Author

Dianne Oenning Thompson is an affiliated lecturer in the Slavonic Department at the University of Cambridge and has taught Russian literature in the United States. George Pattison is Dean of Chapel at King's College, Cambridge.

Reviews

From reviews of the hardback: 'Here is both literary criticism and theological reflection ... [the authors] are to be congratulated on collecting and editing such a fine book.' Theology From reviews of the hardback: 'It goes without saying that Dostoevsky cannot occupy the central position in any appraisal of the assimilation of Christianity into Russian literature as indeed of the relevance of this phenomenon to the new Russia; in this context, then, the appearance of Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition is timely and welcome.' Modern Language Review