Dostoevsky's Greatest Characters: A New Approach to ''Notes from the Underground,'' Crime & Punishment, & The Brothers Karamozov Book

Preface     xi
"Notes from Underground"
History and Personality     3
My Approach versus Frank's and Bakhtin's     3
Oppression and Suffering     6
Inner Conflicts     9
A Spiteful Official     13
Zverkov and Liza     17
Daydreams, the Visit to Simonov, and the Dinner for Zeverkov     17
Liza in the Brothel     23
Liza's Visit     27
The Diarist     33
Introduction     33
Why Can't He Act?     35
"That Strange Enjoyment"     38
The Most Advantageous Advantage     42
Crime and Punishment
Rhetoric in Crime and Punishment     51
Introduction     51
My Approach versus Bakhtin's     52
Dostoevsky's Rhetorical Techniques     56
Fashionable Modern Unbelief     58
The Right-minded Characters     63
Dostoevsky's Perspective     71
History and Inner Conflicts     73
Introduction     73
Raskolnikov and His Family     74
Inner Conflicts     82
An Extraordinary Man     86
After the Murder     89
Sonya, Svidrigaylov, andRaskolnikov's Conversion     95
Introduction     95
Raskolnikov and Sonya     96
Raskolnikov and Svidrigaylov     105
Raskolnikov's Conversion     108
The Happy Ending of Crime and Punishment     112
The Brothers Karamazov
Thematic Analysis of The Brothers Karamazov     117
Introduction     117
Ivan's Challenge     119
Contradiction in Ivan's Position     124
Responses to Ivan     126
Seeds That Bear Much Fruit     128
We Are Responsible for All     131
Freedom versus Happiness     133
Ivan: Character Structure and Beliefs     135
Introduction     135
Detachment     136
Anger and Aggression     139
Search for Glory     143
The Grand Inquisitor     146
Ivan: Before the Murder     155
The Emergence of Ivan's Inner Conflicts     155
Ivan and Smerdyakov     159
Temptation and Fall     163
Ivan: After the Murder     169
Introduction     169
The First Meeting with Smerdyakov     170
The Second Interview     173
The Final Visit to Smerdyakov     176
Continued Inner Conflicts     180
Alyosha: History, Personality, and Relationship with Zossima     189
Introduction     189
Alyosha and His Mother     192
Alyosha's Defenses     194
Alyosha and Father Zossima     199
Zossima's Teachings     201
Alyosha: Trials and Resolutions     207
Alyosha in the World     207
Comforts and Complications     212
Rebellion: The Death of Zossima     216
Raised from the Depths     218
One of the Elect     220
Conclusion     222
References     225
Index     229