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A Typology of Embedded Texts in The Brothers Karamazov

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Kevin Moss
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Slavic Review , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , Summer 1983 , pp. 253 - 257
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1983

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1. In an earlier version of this paper the idea of text features was more closely related to Lotman, Iu. M. and Piatigorsky, A. M.'s in “Text and Function” (New Literary History, vol. 9, 2: 233–44Google Scholar).

2. “From the manuscript of Karamazov, Aleksei Fedorovich. “Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 30-i tt., vol. 14 (hereafter PSS) (Leningrad, 1976), p. 260 Google Scholar

3. Ibid., p. 101.

4. Ibid., p. 106.

5. “God keep me from lying and showing off,” ibid., p. 99.

6. “But I'm sincere, sincere,” ibid., p. 108.

7. “I'll explain later, but remembering that it's a secret I began to speak secretively, and I'm whispering like a fool,” ibid., p. 95.

8. Ibid., p. 48.

9. “I've never told anybody, now you're the first I'll tell,” ibid., p. 101.

10. “Mitia, I know you'll tell the whole truth,” ibid., p. 105.

11. “Padded it out a little to show off,” ibid., p. 106.

12. “You'll be my first reader, that is listener,” ibid., p. 224.

13. “I once composed a poema, about a year ago,” ibid.

14. “Oh no, I didn't, and I've never composed even two lines of verse in my life,” ibid.

15. “Your suffering inquisitor is just fantasy,” ibid., p. 237.

16. “Plagiarism!” ibid., p. 240.

17. On zhitiia I have relied mostly on V., Kliuchevskii, Drevnerusskie zhitiia sviatykh (Moscow, 1871 Google Scholar).

18. M., Bakhtin, Problemy poetiki Dostoevskogo (Moscow, 1979), p. 290 Google Scholar.

19. “But it's nonsense, Alesha, it's only a senseless poem of a senseless student who never wrote two lines of poetry. Why are you taking it so seriously?” PSS, p. 239.

20. Jacques, Catteau, La cr;x00E9;ation litt;x00E9;raire chez Dostoievski (Paris: Institut d'x00C9;tudes slaves, 1978), p. 464 Google Scholar.

21. Belknap, Robert in The Structure of “The Brothers Karamazov” (The Hague: Mouton, 1967, pp. 106–109)Google Scholar and Morson, Gary Saul in The Boundaries of Genre (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981, p. 46 Google Scholar) have argued for the fictionality of the preface.