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 75
... rationally , justify it rationally and execute it rationally . It is this emphasis on man's rationality which Dostoyevsky attacks . The underground man had claimed that man's rational faculties con- stitute a mere twentieth part of his ...
... rationally , justify it rationally and execute it rationally . It is this emphasis on man's rationality which Dostoyevsky attacks . The underground man had claimed that man's rational faculties con- stitute a mere twentieth part of his ...
Page 120
... rational creature ; fourthly , that he may therefore be made to see where his best interest lies and to act accordingly ; fifthly , that since man is amenable to rational persuasion and since his best interest lies in cooperation with ...
... rational creature ; fourthly , that he may therefore be made to see where his best interest lies and to act accordingly ; fifthly , that since man is amenable to rational persuasion and since his best interest lies in cooperation with ...
Page 133
... rational egoists Lopukhov and Kirsanov ( who , as their names imply , have grown symbolically out of Turgenev's representatives of the young generation ) are themselves only ordinary before the epitome of independence , the iron ...
... rational egoists Lopukhov and Kirsanov ( who , as their names imply , have grown symbolically out of Turgenev's representatives of the young generation ) are themselves only ordinary before the epitome of independence , the iron ...
Contents
Raskolnikovs City and the Napoleonic Plan | 37 |
Crime and Punishment | 51 |
A Psychologists View | 103 |
Copyright | |
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