Dostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky

Vladimir Golstein is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism (1999), Svetlana Aleksievich & The Voice of Soviet Intelligentsia (2015) and numerous articles on major Russian authors. His essays on current political affairs have been published by Forbes, The Nation, Al Jazeera, RT, Antiwar, Alternet, and Russia Insider; he is also a frequent participant in various political TV shows discussing US and Russia's foreign politics and culture for CCTV's The Heat, PressTV, RT's Crosstalk, Al Jazeera, and Channel 4 in Great Britain. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Svetlana Evdokimova holds PhD from Yale University in Slavic Languages and Literatures and is currently professor of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is the author of Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Yale University Press), Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies: The Poetics of Brevity, ed. (Wisconsin University Press), and of the wide range of articles on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov's relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.

Introduction: Fiction beyond Fiction: Dostoevsky’s Quest for Realism Vladimir Golstein and Svetlana Evdokimova



I. Encounters with Science



1. Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Russia’s Radical Youth

David Bethea and Victoria Thorstensson



2. Darwin’s Plots, Malthus’s Mighty Feast, Lamennais’s Motherless Fledglings, and Dostoevsky’s Lost Sheep

Liza Knapp



3. “Viper will eat viper”: Dostoevsky, Darwin, and the Possibility of Brotherhood

Anna A. Berman



4. Encounters with the Prophet: Ivan Pavlov, Serafima Karchevskaia, and “Our Dostoevsky”

Daniel P. Todes



II. Engagements with Philosophy



5. Dostoevsky and the Meaning of “the Meaning of Life”

Steven Cassedy



6. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Hazards of Writing Oneself into (or out of) Belief

David S. Cunningham



7. Dostoevsky as Moral Philosopher

Charles Larmore



8. “If there’s no immortality of the soul . . . everything is lawful”: On the Philosophical Basis of Ivan Karamazov’s Idea

Sergei A. Kibalnik



III. Questions of Aesthetics



9. Once Again about Dostoevsky’s Response to Hans Holbein the Younger’s Dead Body of Christ in the Tomb

Robert L. Jackson



10. Prelude to a Collaboration: Dostoevsky’s Aesthetic Polemic with Mikhail Katkov

Susanne Fusso



11. Dostoevsky’s Postmodernists and the Poetics of Incarnation

Svetlana Evdokimova



IV. The Self and the Other



12. What Is It Like to Be Bats? Paradoxes of The Double

Gary Saul Morson



13. Interiority and Intersubjectivity in Dostoevsky: The Vasya Shumkov Paradigm

Yuri Corrigan



14. Dostoevsky’s Angel—Still an Idiot, Still beyond the Story: The Case of Kalganov

Michal Oklot



15. The Detective as Midwife in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Vladimir Golstein



16. Metaphors for Solitary Confinement in Notes from Underground and Notes from the House of the Dead

Carol Apollonio



17. Moral Emotions in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”

Deborah A. Martinsen



18. Like a Shepherd to His Flock: The Messianic Pedagogy of Fyodor Dostoevsky—Its Sources and Conceptual Echoes

Inessa Medzhibovskaya



V. Intercultural Connections



19. Achilles in Crime and Punishment

Donna Orwin



20. Raskolnikov and the Aqedah (Isaac’s Binding)

Olga Meerson



21. Prince Myshkin’s Night Journey: Chronotope as a Symptom

Marina Kostalevsky