Literary Portraits in the Novels of F. M. Dostoevskij / Edmund Heier

• VerfasserIn: Heier, Edmund
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Language: German
• Series: Vorträge und Abhandlungen zur Slavistik 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.); , EPDF
• Notes: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

In approaching F. M . Dostoevskij's novels with the express purpose of identifying and determining the function of literary portraiture, one is faced with an unexpected enormous gallery of literary portraits. These are verbal accounts or drawings in words, in which physical appearance and facial expression are described not only to evoke a visual image, but more specifically to discern the inner man. The vast amount of material that came to light in the pursuit of this study has necessitated a selection and omission of equally valid specimens, which would further substantiate that Dostoevskij was a close observer of the physical properties of his characters and that he employed them to delineate psychological and moral disposition.

Table of Contents

Dostoevskij's Concept of Man and its Artistic Depiction in Literary Portraiture - The Early Period: The Landlady (1847), Netochka Nezvanova (1849), The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859), The Insulted and Injured (1861), Notes from the House of Death (1861) - The Beginning o f the Period of the G reat Novels: Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Gambler (1867), The Idiot (1868) - The Novels o f the I870's: The Eternal Husband (1870), The Possessed (1871-72), A Raw Youth (1875) - The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)