Title Information
Title
Dostoevsky's Influence on Modernism and Its Applications for Comparative Literary Analysis
Abstract
Actively writing from the mid-1800s until his death in 1881, Dostoevsky produced critically introspective works such as Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and his magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov, decades before the commonly understood origin point of modernism. This thesis will argue firstly that Dostoevsky's works share significant devices with modernist texts, including the stream of consciousness, abstraction of reality, and the rewriting of canonical cultural and literary elements. I will then argue that such similarities emerged from commonalities between Dostoevsky and the modernists' social circumstances, including rapid urbanization, intense violence, and the departure from the concept of God as a sovereign figure. I will conclude that because of these similarities, we can not only understand modernists texts through new lenses, but also see ways in which new novels today continue to be inspired, thematically and stylistically, by events similar to those that influenced Dostoevsky and the modernists.
Name: Personal
Name Part
Luo, Katherine
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creator
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Armstrong, Paul
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thesis advisor
Name: Personal
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Nabers, Deak
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reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Golstein, Vladimir
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reader
Name: Corporate
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Brown University. English
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sponsor
Origin Information
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2019
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text
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born digital
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English
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Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2019
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English
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theses
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Topic
Russia
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Christianity
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Religion
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Topic
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
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Topic
Modernism (Literature)
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Topic
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
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Topic
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
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Topic
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
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Topic
Crime and Punishment
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Topic
Notes from underground
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Topic
Brothers Karamazov
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Topic
Urbanization
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/ncah-jr68
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