Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89).

The purpose of this thesis is to reveal the structural unity of The Brothers Karamazov through the isolation and analyzation of the various techniques used by Dostoyevsky to unify the novel. In order to retain more than a few impressions and remembrances of outstanding events, in order to retain the novel itself, the reader needs to be aware of the structure of the work. If the fullest realization of the novel depends upon the reader's perception of its structure, the structure becomes the important critical element.

Thesis (M.A. in Theological Studies) -- University of Dayton. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 10/07/09). Advisor: Kelly S. Johnson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-109).

In order to establish the views on suffering held by the nineteenth-century (1821-1881) Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is first necessary to determine the viewpoint of his age. In general, it was an age of humanitarianism-- the age of "compassion for the suffering of human beings," the age of optimism, of faith in a morality established by science and reason." Humanitarianism itself was an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, the eighteenth-century intellectual movement which emphasized reason. This age of reason reflected the progress in science, which had weakened the hold of the Church and of faith on men's minds. Dostoyevsky's rejection of socialism made it necessary for him to reject the corollary of socialism: the elimination of human suffering. Thus he was forced to evolve a personal interpretation for the suffering that he would not let be abolished. Critics generally consider Siberia to be the turning point in Dostoyevsky's life, both from a personal and a literary standpoint. Before his imprisonment, Dostoyevskyts values were too immature for him to develop a significant theory illuminating the problem of suffering. It took Siberia to teach Dostoyevsky the meaning of metaphysical suffering-- the search for the meaning of God and reality. This meaning can be traced in the majority of his post-Siberian works in the form of the theory that happiness and ultimate salvation are made available to man through the purifying effects of his metaphysical sufferings.

Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Vita. Bibliography: p. [146]-151.

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Issued also as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Vita. Bibliography: p. [146]-151.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-223).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 1993. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-396).

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