Crime and punishment : a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism /

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Main Authors: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. (Editor)
Group Author: Katz, Michael R. (Translator)
Published: W.W. Norton & Company,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2019]
©2018
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Russian
Series: Norton critical editions
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Item Description: [A] new translation accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes; names of principal characters, a note on characters' names, and a map of St. Petersburg, [and] key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2. Twenty-eight scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European, and American sources; a chronology and a selected bibliography.--Back cover. ----Translation is based on the authoritative text published in Vol. 6 of the author's Complete Collected works in Thirty Volumes [Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v triditsati tomakh] (Leningrad, 1973) -- Preface.
Carrier Form: xi, 576 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-576).
ISBN: 9780393264272
0393264270
Index Number: PG3326
CLC: I512.44
Call Number: I512.44/D724-45
Contents: The Nihilists and Raskolnikov's new ideal /
How minute changes of consciousness caused Raskolnikov to commit murder /
The history of the writing of the novel /
Religion of suffering /
Crime and Punishment (1866) /
Dostoevsky's search for motives in the notebooks /
The first sentence in Crime and Punishment, the word "Crime", and other matters /
Philosophical pro and contra in Part one of Crime and Punishment /
The death of Marmeladov /
The nihilism of Sonia Marmeladova /
The wisdom of a Iurodivaia /
Dunia Raskol'nikov, the aesthetic consequence of virtue in Crime and Punishment /
Self-sacrifice vs. saving a sister, the roles of sister and brother /
Traditional symbolism in Crime and Punishment /
The world of Raskolnikov /
The revolt against Mother Earth /
Recurrent imagery in Crime and Punishment /
The problem of guilt in Dostoevsky's fiction /
"It was I who killed the old woman and her sister", modes of confession in Crime and Punishment /
The construction of the novel; Dostoevsky's descriptions; the character and the city /
Plot structure and Raskolnikov's oscillations /
The hero in Dostoevsky's art; the idea in Dostoevsky /
Puzzle and mystery; the narrative poles of knowing, Crime and Punishment /
Sideshadowing and its possibilities; disease #3; hypothetical time, crime and chronicity /
Raskolnikov, Karakazov and the etiology of a 'new word' /
A triple take: Crime and Punishment in Woody Allen's cin