TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spektor,Alexander
TI  - Reader as accomplice: narrative ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov 
T2  - Studies in Russian literature and theory
SN  - 9780810142459 (pbk.)
AV  - PG3015.5.E74 S64 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Evanston, Ill.
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
KW  - Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. Dostoevsky and Nabokov: The Case for Narrative Ethics -- Between Sin and Redemption: Narrative as the Conduit for Responsibility in Dostoevsky's "The Meek One" -- From Violence to Silence: Vicissitudes of Reading (in) The Idiot -- The Metaphysics of Authorship: Narrative Ethics in Nabokov's Despair -- The Dangers of Aesthetic Bliss: The Double Bind of Language in Bend Sinister -- Conclusion
N2  - "This book argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking morally laden plots to the ethical questions raised by narrative fiction at the formal level"--
ER  -