<>Themes and controversies - map

 

On the left of this Map for are the 'issues' and 'controversies' and on the right the themes themselves. (The names of the themes are inside curly brackets.) The themes may seem abstract but as a matter of fact these pages contain concrete, vivid examples, like the pages concerned with 'issues.'

The 'Introduction to Themes' explains the words I use repeatedly in this part of the site.

The entries illustrate the contrasts which are such an important theme of the whole site. Mikhail Bakhtin, in his 'Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics' writes of "Dostoevsky's passion for journalism and his love of the newspaper, his deep and subtle understanding of the newspaper page as a living reflection of the contradictions of contemporary society in the cross-section of a single day, where the most diverse and contradictory material is laid out, extensively, side by side..." (Translation by Caryl Emerson, University of Minnesota Press, Page 29-30.) The 'diverse and contradictory' material on this pagecovers a wide range, not all of it of interest to journalists.