Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment A Casebook [Paperback]

ThisCasebookis 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 theCasebookconcludes are by modern Russian scholars, who examine the novel in the light of their own Orthodox tradition.

Introduction,Richard Peace, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol

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 Punishmentand Contemporary Radical Thought,Derek Offord
The Other World inCrime and Punishment,V. E. Vetlovskaya
The Epilogue ofCrime and Punishment,Tatyana Kasatkina

Suggested Reading
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Richard Peaceis Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol.