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OverviewIn Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in Suicide as well as theories of other prominent suicidologists. This book not only fills a lacuna in Dostoevsky scholarship, but provides fresh readings of Dostoevsky’s major works, including Notes from The House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. Ronner provides an exegesis of how Dostoevsky’s implicit awareness of fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic modes of self-destruction helped shape not only his philosophy, but also his craft as a writer. In this study, Ronner contributes to the field of suicidology by anatomizing both self-destructive behavior and suicidal ideation while offering ways to think about prevention. But most expansively, Ronner tackles the formidable task of forging a ligature between artistic creation and the pluripresent social fact of self-annihilation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy D. RonnerPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.653kg ISBN: 9781793607812ISBN 10: 1793607818 Pages: 356 Publication Date: 12 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Suicide as a Social Fact Chapter 2: Fatalistic Convulsions in Notes From the House of the Dead Chapter 3: Egoistic Self-Deceminantion in Crime and Punishment and The Idiot Chapter 4: Anomy in Demons and The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Antonymous Creative Process Bibliography Index About the AuthorReviewsDostoevsky is much too capacious and universally inspiring to be the property of narrow specialists. For some time, Russian scholars have admired law professor Amy D. Ronner's ability to set Dostoevsky's works in conversation with contemporary legal issues. This new book brings out in full measure her brilliance as literary critic and scholar. The centrality of suicide in Dostoevsky's work has not escaped notice, but this is the first book devoted entirely to the problem, and it does so with a dazzlingly multidisciplinary framework. But most impressive is her rigorous, unfailingly insightful close reading of Dostoevsky's post-exile writing. This book is accessible and unjargonated. It is highly recommended for anyone who would more deeply understand Dostoevsky's fiction and aesthetics.--William Mills Todd III, professor emeritus, Harvard University In her sixth book, Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner brings her razor-sharp legal mind to bear on the incalculable mystery of suicide and Dostoevsky's many representations of it. Through the lens of Durkheim's classic work, Suicide, but also with reference to the works of many other theorists and social thinkers, Ronner expands our understanding of Dostoevsky's oeuvre in unexpected ways while deepening our general knowledge about the nature of suicide.--Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University Of all the sins committed by Dostoevsky's characters, murder is surely the most horrifying and, of all murders, self-murder the most shocking. In this groundbreaking new study, Amy D. Ronner provides us with a theoretical lens through which to penetrate suicide's mysteries and find purpose within its seeming purposelessness. This is a foundational book that makes a major contribution to Dostoevsky studies while simultaneously illuminating a dark spot within the culture of nineteenth-century Russia as a whole.--Marcia A. Morris, professor emerita, Georgetown University Author InformationAmy D. Ronner is professor emeritus of law at St. Thomas University and author of Dostoevsky and the Law. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |