Epilepsy And Dostoevsky's Fiction Creation

As a great Russian writer with worldwide reputation, Dostoevsky's distinctive featured works were doomed to be bound together with his miserable life suffering of epilepsy. Based on the research realm of literature and madness, this dissertation presents a detailed analysis of his novels from the perspective of epilepsy and casts light on the poetic values of epilepsy on literature and madness.The paper is composed of the following three parts. That is, the introduction, main body and conclusion.Introduction: With the approach of Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault, this part outlines the western history of madness and literature, exposing whose subtle relationship with the Rationalism. After that, it reviews the contemporary research papers concerned with the subject matter home and abroad. From the perspectives of psychoanalytical Criticism, sociology, religious philosophy and formalism.The main body: It consists of 4 chapters. The first chapter, Dostoevsky and his epilepsy, has two sections. Using the biographic critical means, the first section discusses the influential factors in his writing orientation, which include his childhood, family surroundings and life experience. With the help of the information on Dostoevsky's epilepsy and Deleuze's nomenclature on the symptoms of Masochists and Sadists.The second section combines his personal epileptic sensation in terms of pathology and renames them as paranoia, double personality, masochistic and religions orientation, based on which, the second chapter investigates the characters'morbid psychology and mentality in his novels and discloses that it is not a merely medical pathology but the social pathogenesis as well as his unique fantastic realism that determined the distinctive figures in his novels. Therefore, in our interpretation of his novels, only when the morbidity is put into the context of the aesthetic, sociological and cultural tradition, can we fully reveal the great writer's art uniqueness.Chapter Three has 3 sections, mainly about out reflection upon Bahktin's theory of polyphony novel. Though inspiring ideas have been drawn from Bahktin's theory, his neglect of...