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John Givens
Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters'sinning their way to Jesus.'In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical metho
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Silicon Carbide (SiC) provides excellent characteristics such as superior thermal conductivity, high carrier mobility and extreme chemical stability in comparison with those of Silicon (Si). SiC is already showing significant device performance benef
Autor:
John Givens
This chapter examines Tolstoy's treatment of divine love both for its importance in illuminating the strong divide between earthly and heavenly kinds of love in his works but also for the significance Leo Tolstoy ascribes to love of enemies as its ba
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John Givens
This chapter contrasts the Jesus of history with the Christ of faith. It charts the growing secularism of Russian culture and society in the nineteenth century, the so-called “century of unbelief.” The chapter also tracks the rise of secularism i
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John Givens
This chapter examines how, like Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak also reveals Christ through a text within a text. This is demonstrated in the poems of his hero, Yuri Zhivago, which appear as the final chapter of the book and which help to affirm Zhivago's
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John Givens
This chapter argues that one of Dostoevsky's bleakest faith narratives, The Idiot, deploys comedy as an apophatic device that reveals in the actions of its comic Christ figure, Prince Myshkin, the possibility of faith even in the face of the death an
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John Givens
This chapter compares Demons and Brothers Karamazov as apophatic discourses that underscore the difficulty of belief, even among those who profess faith. Both of these novels demonstrate how the apophatic exercise can lead as easily to unbelief as to
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John Givens
This introductory chapter reveals Russia's anxiety over its Christian heritage—specifically, its anxiety over the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ. Russian literature of the past two hundred plus years is as secular as any of the literature
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John Givens
This concluding chapter provides observations about the image of Christ in works published after Joseph Stalin's death and after the demise of the Soviet Union. The Passion narrative in particular—so prominent in Bulgakov's and Pasternak's novels
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John Givens
This chapter examines Tolstoy's ultimate apophatic exercise: his negating of Jesus's divine qualities altogether. This undertaking is the subject of a series of works in which Tolstoy's assertion of Christ's non-divinity and his emphasis on reason (r
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