Perlina N. Varieties of Poetic Utterance. Quotation in The Brothers Karamazov

Lanham; New York; London: University Press of America, 1985. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0-8191-4372-3.By applying several aspects of Mikhail Bahktin's discourse-utterance theory, the author examines the use of quotation in Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov." All ideological pronouncements made by the heroes of the book are classified into two types of poetic utterance: authoritative and internally persuasive discourse.Transliterations and Translations.
Introduction. A Historical Perspective on the Function of Quotation.
Theoretical Aspects.
Quotation as "another person's word”.
Kiril Taranovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin on quotation.
Examination of the Quoted Sources.
The Brothers Karamazov and Russian spiritual literature.
The aesthetics of paraphrased and veiled quotations in The Brothers Karamazov.
On the mechanics of polyphonic reorchestration.
Poetics of the authoritative word: the harmony of polyphony.
From the word's distorted image to the resurrection of the word.
Bibliographical notes.