Crime and punishment : a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism /
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W.W. Norton & Company,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: |
[2019] ©2018 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: |
English Russian |
Series: |
Norton critical edition. |
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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 cinematic universe / Serialization of Crime and Punishment in The Russian Herald (1866) -- |