Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a...
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Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate. Cover -- Dostoevsky as Suicidologist -- Series page -- Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self-Destructionand the Creative Process -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Self-Murder: Is It? How? Why? -- Durkheim and the Social Fact-Suicide -- The Road Ahead -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Fatalistic Convulsions in Notes from the House of the Dead -- Introduction -- The Suicide Incubator -- Abrupt Convulsions -- Collective Succedanea -- Conclusion: Slouching toward Zosima -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Egoistic Self-Decimation in Crime and Punishment and The Idiot -- Egoistic Indifference in Crime and Punishment -- Egoistic Self-Decimation in The Idiot -- Conclusion: A Pardon from the Egoistic Guillotine? -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Anomy in Demons and The Brothers Karamazov -- The Anomic Faces of Demons -- The Anomic Permissibility of Everything in The Brothers Karamazov -- Conclusion: Anomy, Nihilism, and Anthropophagy -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- The Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author.
