Dostoevskiian

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Dostoevskiian (comparative more Dostoevskiian, superlative most Dostoevskiian)

  1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
    • 1969, Shahrough Akhavi, The Egyptian Image of the Soviet Union, 1954-1968: A Study in Press Communication, page 256:
      He confessed to his readers that his May 22 article stressing Khrushchev's affinity to the Dostoevskiian peasant had made the fallen leader angry.
    • 1978, The Journal of Psychohistory, volume 6, page 329:
      With his rage-disguising Dostoevskiian philosophy of “humble charity,” Novak is assured that the meek shall indeed inherit the earth, as each person learns to live with “gentleness, compassion, and patience” in his ethnic habitat of neighborhood or thought.
    • 1989, Michael Finke, Metapoesis in Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevskii and Chekhov, page 119:
      The Prince accepts twenty rubles from General Epanchin with the gratefulness of a holy man begging alms, that is, with none of the ambivalence and resentment of a typical hypersensitive Dostoevskiian hero or, for that matter, of Dostoevskii himself (30).
    • 2015, Paolo Stellino, “Part I. Nietzsche Discovers and Reads Dostoevsky”, “8. A “Subterranean” at Work”, in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism (Lisbon Philosophical Studies: Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields), Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 85:
      Van der Luft and Stenberg (1991) have developed Miller’s analysis of the similarities between the two texts. In their paper (ibid.: 442), the two scholars claim to “present not only additional evidence that Nietzsche used Dostoevskii in the composition of the preface, but also evidence of a difference – a Dostoevskiian difference – between his predemarcation and postmedarcation writings.”

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