Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being
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Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being

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Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being

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For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years, illness is an ineradicable part of existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set of physical symptoms and a state of survival in which the protagonists incessantly try to articulate, theorize, or master what is ungraspable in their everyday experience. Their attempts to deal with what they cannot control or comprehend results in disappointment, or what Dostoevsky called a mystical terror. Dostoevsky's heroes are unable fully to understand this state, and their existence becomes 'epileptic' in so far as self-knowledge and self-coincidence are never achieved. Fung explores new critical pathways by reexamining five of Dostoevsky's post-Siberian novels. Drawing on insights from writers including Benjamin, Blanchot, Freud, Lacan and Nietzsche, the book takes epilepsy as a trope for discussing the unspeakable moments in the texts, and is intended for students and scholars who are interested in the subject of modernity, critique of the visual, and dialogues between philosophy and literature. Paul Fung is Assistant Professor in English at Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351569286
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Note on Texts
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 ‘The Egoism of Suffering’: Schiller with Sade
  11. 2 Petersburg and the Deaf and Dumb Spirit
  12. 3 The Image without an Image: The Guillotine and Holbein’s Dead Christ
  13. 4 The Will to Epilepsy: Suicide, Writing, and Modernity
  14. 5 The Karamazovs’ Other History: Childhood, Violence, and the Shriekers
  15. Conclusion — Death Sentences: Infinite Postponement
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index