Text semantics as a prime cause of the subject and the characters' behaviour (or: Why the duke Lev Nikolayevich stayed with Nastsya Philippovna, but not with Aglaya) by О I Valentinova

“…The article represents an example and realization of the philological hermeneutical commentary of parts of F.M. Dostoyevsky novel «The Idiot».…”
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The Semiotics of Dacha in Dostoevsky’s Story “The Eternal Husband” by Olga A. Bogdanova

“…It is established that while the “estate text” is present in most of the writer’s works of 1840s–1870s, the “dacha text” can be found mainly in two works of the late 1860s: the novel The Idiot (1868) and the story “The Eternal Husband.” …”
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The Salvation of Europe is (Found) in Beauty? by Ivan Djeparoski

“…In this essay Dostoevsky’s famous utterance, “Beauty will save the world”, from his novel The Idiot (1869) is being analyzed, namely, by examining the interpretations of this utterance in the works of Solovyov and Solzhenitsyn. …”
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“THE WHOLE EMERGES AS A HERO”: TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF DIALECTICAL PRINCIPLES OF DOSTOEVSKY’S POETICS by Sergey V. Syzranov

“…These aspects trace back to a number of works of the writer (the novel “Poor People”, the tale “A Faint Heart”, the story “A Little Hero”, the novel “Th e Idiot”). …”
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ТНЕ ТНЕМЕ OF HOLY FOOLISHNESS IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY by V B Gomes Dias, I A Leksina

“…We made our conclusions analyzing mainly novels, correspondence and diaries of F.M. Dostoevsky, and also relying on the work of famous scientists: M.M. …”
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Aestheticism and utilitarianism: the principles of a new logic in Dostoevsky by Adriano Dell’Asta

“…This article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through the famous question in his novel, The Idiot, ‘Will beauty save the world?’ The author wants to show how the figure of Christ plays a central role in Dostoevsky’s artistic-literary conception because it is the key to conciliation between the aesthetic position, which thinks that art finds its justification in its own essence, and the utilitarian one, which advocates that art should have a direct and immediate utility to the service of society. …”
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Between Aestheticism and Utilitarianism. The Principles of a New Logic in Dostoevsky by Adriano Dell’Asta

“…The article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through theAbstract: The article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through thefamous question in his novel, The Idiot, ‘Will beauty save the world?’ The author wantsto show how the figure of Christ plays a central role in Dostoevsky’s artistic-literaryconception because it is the key to conciliation between the aesthetic position, whichthinks that art finds its justification in its own essence, and the utilitarian one, whichadvocates that art should have a direct and immediate utility to the service of society.Throughout the article it will be shown that for Dostoevsky, by virtue of the figureof Christ, reconciliation is possible without the two positions having to give up someof their specificities, but keeping both together with all the richness and peculiaritiesof each one.…”
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REVIEW: Călin-Horia Bârleanu, Strigătul lui Benjy. Contribuţii asupra tipologiei idiotului în literatură by Alina Viorela PRELIPCEAN

“…Contributions on the typology of the idiot in literature], an ontological decipherment, i.e. from the perspective of the “speculative theories about the ultimate essences or principles of all things” (MDA, 2010), which would premeditatedly avoid the “harmony of words, so deceptive and by which the trust, as a form of faith, has been emptied of any content”(p. 344), of “the typology of the patient with diminished mental capacity, real and equally projected on him” (p. 204), starting from and analyzing Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, in which the typological character “is, among the resonant forms of the archetype, an entity as palpable as the fear of the dark or the obsessive «devouring jaws», because it represents and it is described by the American writer as a unique form of manifestation and communication”(p. 344), following “the unique typology of Benjy’s projections” especially “through the psychoanalytic lens or the Jungian psychology”(p. 78).…”
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Two fictional journeys in the life of Dostoevsky: Typskin’s Summer in Baden–Baden and Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg by Antonio Martínez Illán

“…Each novel is framed by a question: Where does Dostoevsky’s writing come from? …”
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Dostoyevsky and epilepsy: between science and mystique Dostoiévski e a epilepsia: entre a ciência e a mística by Antenilson Franklyn Rodrigues Lima, Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian

“…Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to discuss the relationship between epilepsy and the mystic experience, bearing in mind the context of the scientific and humanistic perspectives of the 19th century and today.…”
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“Pravda” in Skaftymov’s Research on Dostoevsky by Vladimir V. Dvoeglazov

“…Forgiveness and love serve as the functional essence of characters such as Prince Myshkin from the novel The Idiot and Liza (the heroine of the story Notes from Underground). …”
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Sartre and the possibility of authentic love by Gibson, C

“…This thesis presents a novel argument for the possibility of authentic romantic love. …”

Development of style in the writings of John Cowper Powys, 1915-1929 by Lock, C, Charles John Somerset Lock

“…<p>Between 1915 and 1929 J.C. Powys wrote five novels, <em>Wood and Stone</em>, <em>Rodmoor</em>, <em>After My Fashion</em>, <em>Ducdame</em>, and <em>Wolf Solent</em>, and two unpublished plays, <em>Paddock Calls</em> and a dramatisation of Dostoievsky's <em>The Idiot</em>. …”

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas and The Heron by Giorgio Bassani: The Identification with the Ornithological Other by Sara Culeddu

“…The characters of Mattis “the Idiot” and Edgardo Limentaniboth find themselves in a dramatic condition of exclusion from society and existential collapse. …”
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Dekadents kui ambivalentside esteetika. Segunemised ja sünteesid by Mirjam Hinrikus, Jaan Undusk

“…Friedebert Tuglas formulated the latter as an aesthetic ideal, drawing inspiration from Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel Là-Bas (1891). The article examines a number of examples of Estonian and international literary decadence, where the combination of decadence and naturalism clearly serves to reproduce the aesthetics of ambivalences (e.g., Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”, J. …”
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"INVERSE" PARODY IN DOSTOEVSKY'S WORKS: PRINCE K. - COLONEL ROSTANEV - PRINCE MYSHKIN

“…The article is devoted to the effect of an «inverse» parody based on the novels “Uncle’s Dream”, “The Village of Stepanchikovo” and “The Idiot”. …”
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Beyond racism in Mister Johnson : Joyce Cary's love for the colonized Nigerian, and critique of the British empire. by Ong, Herrick Wee Siong.

“…Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) is named after the protagonist, a young and lively Nigerian clerk who, we are told in the preface to the novel, “turns his life into a romance[;] he is a poet who creates for himself a glorious destiny.” …”
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Artistic functions of Models of Manipulative Speech Interaction in Dialogues of Heroes by F.M. Dostoevsky by Ya. G. Bazhenova

“…The material for the research is the texts of the novels by F. M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”, “The Idiot”, “Demons”, “Teenager” and “The Brothers Karamazov”. …”
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The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Harrison

“…Lastly, I will look at some examples from Dostoevskii’s <em>Idiot </em>and Tolstoi’s<em> Voina i Mir</em> and discuss the portrayal of Jesuits as eloquent speakers who were attempting to convert Russians. …”
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Entre Napoleón y Jesucristo: las peripecias del “alma rusa” en la obra de Dostoievski / Between Napoleon and Jesus Christ: The adventures of the "Russian soul" in Dostoevsky's work... by Tatiana Bubnova

“…ABSTRACT: This is an analysis of the two components of the “Russian soul” highlighted in the Dostoevsky’s novels: Napoleonism and Christology. The origins of both of them can be found in the Western history and civilization. …”
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