Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (The Making of the Christian Imagination) - Softcover

Williams, Rowan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602583730 ISBN 13: 9781602583733

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity ( Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, and The Brothers Karamozov). He argues that understanding Dostoevsky's style and goals as a writer of fiction is inseparable from understanding his religious commitments. Any reader who enters the rich and insightful world of Williams' Dostoevsky will emerge a more thoughtful and appreciative reader for it.

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About the Author

Rowan Williams (Ph.D. Wadham College, Oxford) is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Having received his D. Phil. From Oxford, he held a variety of academic posts in Oxford and Cambridge, before leaving the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity at Oxford to be successfully Bishop of Monmouth and the Archbishop of Wales. He has published 12 books, including, most recently, Why Study the Past? (2005), Poems (2002), and Writing in the Dust: Reflections on the 11th September and Its Aftermath (2002).

From the Back Cover

Now in paper: The Times Literary Supplement's 2008 book of the year

Edition details

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602583730
• ISBN 13: 9781602583733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304