Thesis (doctoral)--University of Amsterdam, 1988. / Summary in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.

Thèse-Fribourg. / "Bibliographie": p. 74-75.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nottingham, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2016. / Submitted by Camila Duarte (camiladias@bce.unb.br) on 2017-02-23T13:49:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_RonaldoTeixeiradaSilva.pdf: 1126318 bytes, checksum: c13fbdc3727edb49f22f4d294eebf766 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ruthléa Nascimento(ruthleanascimento@bce.unb.br) on 2017-03-03T19:16:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_RonaldoTeixeiradaSilva.pdf: 1126318 bytes, checksum: c13fbdc3727edb49f22f4d294eebf766 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-03T19:16:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_RonaldoTeixeiradaSilva.pdf: 1126318 bytes, checksum: c13fbdc3727edb49f22f4d294eebf766 (MD5) / O presente estudo tem por objetivo identificar o sagrado no romance “O jogador” de Fiódor Mikhailovitch Dostoiévski, a partir da formulação de um roteiro para a leitura. Selecionando os conceitos Semelhança, Imagem, Heterotopia e Circuncisão de Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault e Jacques Derrida, respectivamente, elaboramos uma base teórica complementar à teoria do sagrado. Os filósofos da Ciência das Religiões definem o sagrado como a priori, o que vem antes, o inapreensível. Nessa medida, opomos o mundo sagrado ao mundo profano como Émile Durkheim estudou. E, depois, buscamos encontrar no texto literário o numinoso, definido por Rudolf Otto, e a hierofania, de Mircea Eliade, o que resultou em um desafio exitoso na leitura de “O jogador”. O romance escolhido, devido à narrativa, para ser lido na perspectiva do sagrado, nos levou ao estudo das características próprias do jogo. Para tanto, a teoria do jogo, de Johan Huizinga, estudada também por Roger Caillois, possibilitou a compreensão de experiências do sagrado nesse universo. Universo que a antropologia geral de René Girard, há tempo, observa. A teoria mimética referendou o roteiro, emprestando os conceitos de sacrifício e vítima expiatória, de modo particular, bem como a sua visão totalizadora e unitária da humanidade de modo geral. A base teórica escolhida encontrou em Dostoiévski, por meio do romance “O jogador”, mais um capítulo de sua obra que trata do homem do subsolo, agora inserido, contudo, no debate do sagrado. E nesse ambiente literário, a constatação fundamental é que, através do roteiro, a leitura do sagrado flui com efetividade, uma vez que consagra conceitos, apoiados em exemplos, e dialeticamente os renova, aproximando-os da realidade do jogo e apontando uma contribuição orientadora para a análise do sagrado no âmbito da teoria da literatura. / This study aims at identifying the Sacred in the novel The Gambler by Fiódor Mikhailovich Dostoévski providing the formulation of a reading guide. Starting with the concepts of resemblance, imaging, heterotopy and circumcision by Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, we ellaborated a theoretical basis in order to complement the Sacred theory. The philosophers of Religions Science define the concept of Sacred a priori as what comes first, the ungraspable. To that extent, in this work we oppose the Sacred to the profane world as Emile Durkheim studied. Then, we seeked to find the numinous in the literary text, defined by Rudolf Otto, and the hierophany, by Mircea Eliade. This resulted in a successful challenge during the reading of “The Gambler”. The novel was selected due to its narrative and could be read accordingly to the Sacred perspective. It boosted us to study the characteristics of the game itself. Therefore, the theory of the game, by Johan Huizinga, also studied by Roger Caillois, enabled the comprehension of sacred experiences in the Universe. This Universe is been observed by the general anthropology of René Girard, for a long time. The mimetic theory not only endorsed the reading guide, lending the concepts of sacrifice and atoning victim, in particular, but also contributes with its totalizing and unitary views of humanity in general. The theoretical basis found in Dostoiévski, in the novel “The Gambler”, suggests that another chapter of Dostoiévski´s work deals with the underground man, now inserted, however, in the Sacred debate. In this literary environment, the key finding is that, with the reading guide, the act of reading the sacred flows with effectiveness since it enshrines concepts, which is supported by examples and dialectically renews them, approaching the reality of the game and pointing a guiding contribution to the sacred analysis in the context of literary theory.

Undoubtedly, Dostoyevsky's influence upon the novel is great, but, even yet, few concrete studies have been made and no full-length study has been published. It is hoped that this account of Dostoyevsky's reputation in America during the 1920's will be of assistance in the greater task of tracing Dostoyevsky's influence.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky is often regarded as a proponent of the rights of the poor and downtrodden in Russian society in the 19th century. This view is usually based on the work of his youth - his first short novel and his early short stories. An examination of his major novels - all of which were written during his mature years between 1861 and 1879 - shows, however, that his views were far removed from those of the progressive members of Russian society of his day (the 11 intelligentsia11 ) and that his opinions became more reactionary with advancing age. By the time of his death in 1881, Dostoevsky had long been an opponent of democratic ideals and a keen supporter of the autocratic regime of Tsar Alexander II. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Russian)

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This study provides a detailed analysis of the confession motif in Dostoevsky' s Crime and Punishment. It discusses Dostoevsky's use of the sacramental concept of confession, in which the estranged person is reunited with the human community through contrite confession. Throughout the novel, Raskolnikov wavers between desiring estrangement and seeking union. These two poles are shown in his encounters with Sonya and Porfiry (who represent union) and Luzhin and Svidrigaylov (who represent estrangement). Sonya and Porfiry tell Raskolnikov to confess and accept responsibility for his life; Luzhin and Svidrigaylov show him how to continue passing responsibility to others. This study also demonstrates that the epilogue is not merely a tag, as some Dostoevsky critics have argued. Rather, Raskolnikov' s redemption is the only thematically and psychologically valid conclusion.

Dans ce mémoire, nous tentons de cerner l'esthétique formelle et thématique de L'Idiot de Dostoïevski, que nous appelons la « polyphonie agnostique ». La polyphonie de Bakhtine, en elle-même, s'est révélée inapte à tenir compte de la dimension sacrée du roman, considérée tel un discours idéologique parmi d'autres, selon un principe d'équipollence. Si la polyphonie est ouverte à la multiplicité des voix dans le texte, elle en néglige néanmoins le tragique, soit la crise du sacré orthodoxe marquant la fin du XIXe siècle en Russie. À l'opposé, Ivanov donne un plein sens à cette crise spirituelle, sans toutefois insister suffisamment sur l'aspect formel (désacralisant) de l'écriture dostoïevskienne. Tels sont les deux pôles qui divisent généralement les critiques littéraires: la polyphonie formelle versus le monologisme thématique. Dans l'esprit de concilier ces deux interprétations, nous avons remanié le concept de polyphonie de façon à ce qu'il puisse reconnaître la possibilité de Dieu dans le roman, c'est-à-dire la réalité potentielle du sacré (Bataille). Ainsi, L'Idiot illustre un ensemble de mondes possibles, à l'intérieur duquel le personnage et le lecteur sont appelés à choisir entre les perspectives du regard chosifiant (profane/extérieur) et de la parole réconciliatrice (sacrée/intérieure), soit deux systèmes de représentation en lutte pour s'approprier l'essence du personnage principal -le prince Mychkine -déchiré entre la modernité d'une image et la tradition d'une parole, entre la figure de don Quichotte et celle du Christ. L'esthétique de L'Idiot exprime une tension, jusqu'au point de rupture, entre la polyphonie relativiste et le monologisme orthodoxe. Dans le but de respecter autant la nouveauté formelle, mise en lumière par Bakhtine, que l'enjeu thématique du roman, le « tragique » d'Ivanov, la solution qui s'est imposée a été de fondre ensemble la polyphonie bakhtinienne et le perspectivisme de Deleuze et Guattari, ce qui a donné naissance à la polyphonie agnostique. La contingence des valeurs, telle que conçue par les deux philosophes, nous autorise à interpréter les « idées/valeurs » comme des mondes virtuels au seuil de leur actualisation. Sous cet éclairage, la potentialité générale des idées respecte la diversité formelle de la polyphonie, tandis que l'actualisation inégale des Vérités alimente la tragédie. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Dostoïevski, L'Idiot, Polyphonie, Regard, Parole.