The Stranger Within: Dostoevsky's Underground
| dc.contributor.author | Roberts, P. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-29T23:34:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-15T12:20:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s influential novel, Notes from Underground, we find one of the most memorable characters in 19th century literature. The Underground Man, around whom everything else in this book revolves, is in some respects utterly repugnant: he is self-centred, obsessive and cruel. Yet he is also highly intelligent, honest and reflective, and he has suffered significantly at the hands of others. Reading Notes from Underground can be a harrowing experience but also an educative one, for in an encounter with what at first seems unfamiliar and disorienting we can awaken the ‘stranger within’. Dostoevsky’s work, if we are ready for it, can shake us from our slumbers and allow us to see that what appears to be strange may in fact be deeply familiar to us. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Roberts, P. (2010) The Stranger Within: Dostoevsky's Underground. Murdoch University, Perth, Australia: 40th Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), 2-5 Dec 2010. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7808 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651 | en |
| dc.subject | Fyodor Dostoevsky | en |
| dc.subject | Notes from underground | en |
| dc.subject | R.S. Peters | en |
| dc.subject | Hermann Hesse | en |
| dc.subject | strangeness | en |
| dc.subject | suffering | en |
| dc.subject | compassion | en |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | Fields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4705 - Literary studies::470505 - Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian) | en |
| dc.title | The Stranger Within: Dostoevsky's Underground | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article |