Holy Foolishness: Dostoevskyas Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique by Harriet Murav

Holy Foolishness: Dostoevskyas Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique

Harriet Murav

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This work examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation, serves as a locus for a critique of hi...

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