After Reception Theory
Subtitle: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781351192316
Subjects: Appreciation; Art appreciation
Description: "More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organised accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approaches and deals with the reception of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain from a double perspective. The detailed analysis of primary sources such as reviews, essays and monographs on Dostoevskii is associated here with a critical investigation of the dynamics of the reception process. On the one hand, the available sources are examined with the intention of exposing their underlying ideological tensions and impact on British literary circles. On the other hand, Fedor Dostoevskii's novels are shown to function as a prism, through which significant aspects of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British intellectual life are refracted. In the final analysis, by using Dostoevskii as an exemplary case study, this book develops both a methodology that aims at clarifying what we mean when we refer to 'reception' and a theoretical alternative to prevalent notions of reception."
Table of contents: title: Chapter INTRODUCTION --; title: The Inner and the Outer: A Methodological Premise  -- Lucia Aiello; title: chapter 1 The Introduction of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain: A Difficult Start  -- Lucia Aiello; title: chapter 2 From 'Morbidity' to 'Sickness': A Portrait of the Artist as a Degenerate Man  -- Lucia Aiello; title: chapter 3 The Making of a Cult: Facts and Critical Perspectives  -- Lucia Aiello; title: chapter 4 Problems of Dostoevskii Criticism  -- Lucia Aiello; title: chapter Conclusion -- Lucia Aiello.