Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment : a casebook
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment : a casebook
(Casebooks in criticism)
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment : a casebook
Crime and punishment
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index
Contents of Works
- Apogee : Crime and punishment / Donald Fanger
- Raskolnikov's city and the Napoleonic plan / Adele Lindenmeyr
- Crime and punishment / Edward Wasiolek
- Motive and symbol / Richard Peace
- A psychologist's view / R.D. Laing
- Crime and punishment and contemporary radical thought / Derek Offord
- "The other world" in Crime and punishment / V.E. Vetlovskaya
- The epilogue of Crime and punishment / Tatyana Kasatkina
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This Casebook is a collection of interpretations of Crime and Punishment. The selection not only reflects earlier work by major critics in the field, but also more recent studies. At the same time the choice of critical approaches has been made on the basis of covering the novel's various aspects: Dostoevsky's debt to other novelists in the European tradition; his roots as a writer in the so-called "Natural School" of the 1840s with its emphasis on the theme
of the city; the thematic and symbolic structure of the novel itself; the psychology of the hero; the philosophical content of the novel and its relationship to contemporary thought; the novel's religious dimension. This latter approach has long been established in western criticism, but the two essays with
which the Casebook concludes are by modern Russian scholars, who examine the novel in the light of their own Orthodox tradition.
Table of Contents
Richard Peace, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol
: Introduction
Donald Fanger: Apogee: Crime and Punishment
Adele Lindenmeyr: Raskolnikov's City and the Napoleonic Plan
Edward Wasiolek: Crime and Punishment
Richard Peace: Motive and Symbol
R. D. Laing: A Psychologist's View
Derek Offord: Crime and Punishment and Contemporary Radical Thought
V. E. Vetlovskaya: "The Other World" in Crime and Punishment
Tatyana Kasatkina
: The Epilogue of Crime and Punishment
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Index
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