The Double Vision of the Brothers Karamazov

Oates, Joyce Carol

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“…He seems to fail to learn from Alyosha, Dmitri, Katerina, and others and ends up a shattered man. Yet, as Joyce Carol Oates (1968) pointed out, arguably every significant character in the book is transformed. Ivan's "brain fever" is the price he pays for his sin of intellectual pride, but this also, in Oates's view, points the way toward his future regeneration.…”

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Freire and Dostoevsky

Roberts

2005

Journal of Transformative Education

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This article undertakes a critical comparative analysis of key themes in the workPaulo Freire and Fyodor Dostoevsky: What an odd combination this appears to be! What possible connection, for those interested in education and transformation, could there be between these two individuals? Paulo Freire's name is a familiar one for most educational theorists in the Western world. Known internationally for his work with illiterate adults in Brazil and for his influential book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1972b), Freire devoted his life to the theory and practice of teaching and learning. Dostoevsky, by contrast, had relatively little to say about education. A Russian writer of the 19th century, he is best known for his fiction and particularly for his major later works, Crime and Punishment

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Freire and Dostoevsky

Roberts

2005

Journal of Transformative Education

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Asymmetry and Normativity: Levinas Reading Dostoyevsky on Desire, Responsibility, and Suffering

Edelglass

The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature

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“Balaam’s Ass”: Smerdyakov as a paradoxical redeemer in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

Cohen

2014

Christianity & Literature

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Smerdyakov, the likely fourth brother—a bastard, an epileptic, a murderer, a suicide—is glaringly excluded from the tripartite Karamazov soul of the appetitive Dmitri, the rational Ivan, and the spiritual Alyosha. But to dismiss him as an inexplicable freak of nature is to dismiss the entire sobornost, or spiritual community, of Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. This paper carefully examines the character of Smerdyakov, and argues that his willful self-denial of all aspects of life and humanity—his tripartite rejection of the Karamazov soul—culminates in the murder of his father Fyodor. However, I also maintain that Smerdyakov serves as Dostoevsky’s warning to Russia’s next generation of “gentlemen,” for this “Balaam’s ass” will give Russia occasion to reorient and restore her fracturing soul.

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The Double Vision of the Brothers Karamazov

Cited by 4 publications

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Freire and Dostoevsky

Freire and Dostoevsky

Asymmetry and Normativity: Levinas Reading Dostoyevsky on Desire, Responsibility, and Suffering

“Balaam’s Ass”: Smerdyakov as a paradoxical redeemer in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov

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