Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A CasebookRichard Arthur Peace Oxford University Press, 2006 - 196 pages 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. |
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Page 27
... live and live ! Whatever sort of life — only life ! . . . Man is a scoun- drel ! . . . And a scoundrel is the man who calls him one for that . " In the tavern called the Crystal Palace he has his fateful conver- sation with Zametov in ...
... live and live ! Whatever sort of life — only life ! . . . Man is a scoun- drel ! . . . And a scoundrel is the man who calls him one for that . " In the tavern called the Crystal Palace he has his fateful conver- sation with Zametov in ...
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... live up to her high feelings and sublime pride . He calls her “ pitiless ” ( bezzhalostnaya ) . He had married her when she was destitute , and she had gone to her wedding with him weeping and wringing her hands . She never let him ...
... live up to her high feelings and sublime pride . He calls her “ pitiless ” ( bezzhalostnaya ) . He had married her when she was destitute , and she had gone to her wedding with him weeping and wringing her hands . She never let him ...
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... live and go on doing wicked things or Mrs. Marmeladov should die . How would you decide which of the two should die ? I ask you . " Sonia answers as only she can — that it is not up to her to decide who is to live . Once again , as in ...
... live and go on doing wicked things or Mrs. Marmeladov should die . How would you decide which of the two should die ? I ask you . " Sonia answers as only she can — that it is not up to her to decide who is to live . Once again , as in ...
Contents
Raskolnikovs City and the Napoleonic Plan | 37 |
Crime and Punishment | 51 |
A Psychologists View | 103 |
Copyright | |
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