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ISBN/UID: 9780804720595
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 September 1993
Description
This work examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation, serves as a locus for a critique of hi...
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228 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804720595
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 September 1993
Description
This work examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation, serves as a locus for a critique of hi...