Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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Standard Name: Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Used Form: Dostoyevsky

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maya Angelou
This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with...
Anthologization Anna Livia
Anna Livia has published her short stories in such periodicals as Spinster, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and Girljock. She has also included her fiction in anthologies edited by Lilian Mohin ,...
Education Pat Barker
PB , living in an almost completely book-free environment (though their few books included some tattered volumes of Arthur Mee 's The Children's Encyclopaedia),
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, pp. 9-12.
11
says she became hooked on reading from newspapers round...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker.
White, Gillian. “Awful but Cheerful”. London Review of Books, pp. 8-10.
10
The passages...
Education Dora Carrington
Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
13
Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, pp. 69-77.
72
Her two...
Intertextuality and Influence Anita Desai
AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson
Intertextuality and Influence Maureen Duffy
MD uses Dostoyevsky 's Brothers Karamazov for her epigraph. The wounds of the title, both hidden and visible, are of many kinds, physical and emotional. The characters, a large cast of them, are offered each...
Textual Production Constance Garnett
CG 's translation of Dostoevsky 's The Brothers Karamazov appeared: this version, suggested to her by Arnold Bennett , was the first time that any of Dostoevsky's works had been translated into English.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin.
188
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
547 (4 July 1912): 269
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25.
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Author summary Constance Garnett
During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...
Education Patricia Highsmith
PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
Novelist Brigid Brophy , who also likened PH to Dostoevsky ,
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
also wrote in November 1965 that among crime writers only PH and Georges Simenon had transcended the limits of crime...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Education Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Jolley
The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...

Timeline

1866: Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Pu...

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1866

Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment.

1868: Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot was serialized...

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1868

Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novelThe Idiot was serialized in Russkii vestnik.

January 1879-November 1880: Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov...

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January 1879-November 1880

Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novelThe Brothers Karamazov was serialized in Russkii vestnik.

1881: Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The...

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1881

Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The Brothers Karamazov.

Texts

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The Brothers Karamazov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Heinemann, 1912.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translator Garnett, Constance, W. Heinemann, 1920.