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In mapping the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century, one would expect to find the waste land reflected not only in the original literature of the age, but also in its criticism of an earlier generation’s thought. Here, if anywhere, should be found confirmation for the belief that nineteenth-century certainties collapsed into twentieth-century ambiguities; and yet in the case of Dostoevsky criticism, it will be argued, this is far from being the truth.
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Crowder, C. (1990). The Appropriation of Dostoevsky in the Early Twentieth Century: Cult, Counter-cult, and Incarnation. In: Jasper, D., Crowder, C. (eds) European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century. Studies in Literature and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379503_2
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