Varieties of Poetic Utterance: Quotation in The Brothers Karamazov

By Nina Perlina

Book Overview

By applying several aspects of Mikhail Bahktin's discourse-utterance theory, the author examines the use of quotation in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. All ideological pronouncements made by the heroes of the book are classified into two types of poetic utterance: authoritative and internally persuasive discourse.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819143723
• ISBN13: 9780819143723
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"