Or we have saintly characters like Dostoevsky’s The Idiot ... an illusory reality or an absolutely pessimistic and hopeless aesthetic that tells you there is no way out. It is always either ...

Saawariya (2007) is a romantic drama directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short ... blue-hued visual aesthetics. 5. Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam ...

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His critique of Russian Formalism remains unparalleled today; his major critical works, on Rabelais and Dostoevsky, rank among the masterpieces of modem socialist aesthetics. From Freud to folklore, ...

Topics will include: Slavic mythology; Russian Orthodoxy; Russian icons; the concept of autocracy; the legacy of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great; the Golden Age of Russian Literature (Pushkin, ...

This is a political project, not an aesthetic gesture, and reminds us that the 1880s ... Flaubert, Baudelaire and Dostoevsky, 1821; Tolstoy, 1828. Generation Three: Machado de Assis, 1839; Zola, 1840; ...

In Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art dialogism is presented as a decisive ... endless revolutionary dynamism and in a corresponding ‘contentless’ productionist aesthetic.footnote 26 No doubt this reflects ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-81) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works portray the unfathomable mystery of the human being, poised between good and evil. The great ...

Over the past 50 years, is there anyone who’s written with more breadth, cogency and conviviality about the intersection of ...