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| "A Positive Failure": Holy Foolishness, Paradox, and Narrative in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" |
2018 |
7049 |
The paradoxical and seemingly unredemptive ending of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" informs the reception of the novel as a failure; in this paper, the author argues that the novel's perceived failure and weaknesses serve a problematic ad hoc ending... |
| A Method to His Madness: The Role of Insanity in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita |
2016 |
10787 |
When The Master, title character of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (1966), is first introduced in the novel it is within the confines of a Soviet era insane asylum, and in the novel, “madness” serves as a socio-historical satire of life ... |
| In Search of “Tremendous Frontiers”: A Socially Redemptive Reframing of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Displaced Person’ |
2016 |
2163 |
With few exceptions, the scholarly solution to the mystery and ambiguity embedded in Flannery O’Connor’s work has been to highlight her condemnation of self-reliance and arrogance, to justify her use of violence, and to discuss the process of spiritu... |