Plato’s Dialogues and Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Soundings, 104.1 (2021), 89-112
This article focuses on two concepts, irony and idiocy, as they appear in the works of Plato and Dostoevsky. In Plato's case, the article describes how irony is thematized in a rhetorical mode and also deployed as a dialectical method, creating dramatic tension that produces additional layers of significance.
