TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bagby, Lewis
AB  - Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” Despite his clever attempts to call his readers’ attention to these introductions, they have been neglected as an object of study for over 150 years. That oversight is rectified in First Words, the first systematic study of Dostoevsky’s introductions. Using Genette’s typology of prefaces and Bakhtin’s notion of multiple voices, Lewis Bagby reveals just how important Dostoevsky’s first words are to his fiction. Dostoevsky’s ruses, verbal winks, and backward glances indicate a lively and imaginative author at earnest play in the field of literary discourse.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsjft
ID  - OAPEN ID: 641423
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030822244
KW  - Arts
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Fyodor Dostoevsky
KW  - House of the Dead (film)
KW  - Implied author
KW  - Nikolai Gogol
KW  - Notes from Underground
KW  - The Brothers Karamazov
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/87c1cbf4-0f1a-4f14-bacb-2f646527bf8c/641423.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30918
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PP  - Boston, MA
PY  - 2015-12-22
SN  - 9781618116819
TI  - First Words : On Dostoevsky’s Introductions
ER  - 
