Employing an innovative series of related analytic models, The Dialogic Sign treats the four major novels (Crime and Punishement, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov) of the great nineteenth-century Russian prose writer, F.M. Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to explore what makes Dostoevsky's writing distinctive not only within the sphere of Russian letters but also within the global context of world literature...