TY - BOOK AU - Martinsen,Deborah A. TI - Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment": A Reader’s Guide T2 - Cultural Syllabus SN - 9781644697856 AV - PG3325.P73 M37 2022 U1 - 891.73/3 23/eng/20211208 PY - 2022///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Russian literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh KW - 19th-century ideological debates in Russia KW - Crime and Punishment as a detective novel KW - Dostoevsky studies KW - Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment KW - Fyodor Dostoevsky KW - Narrative strategy KW - Shame studies KW - teaching strategies for Crime and Punishment KW - the Petersburg theme in Russian literature KW - the Russian novel N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1. Historical Introduction: Dostoevsky and Russia --; CHAPTER 2. Overview --; CHAPTER 3. Parts 1 and 2: Getting Away with Murder --; CHAPTER 4. Parts 3 to 5: In and Out of Raskolnikov’s Mind --; CHAPTER 5. Part 6: Last Meetings and Epilogue --; Appendix 1: Illustrations and Maps --; Appendix 2: Crime and Punishment Chronology --; Appendix 3: Contemporary Critical Reactions --; Appendix 4: Chronology of Dostoevsky’s Life --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov’s fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevsky subsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov’s thinking, effecting a conversion in reader sympathy. By examining the multiple justifications for murder Raskolnikov gives as he confesses to Sonya, Dostoevsky debunks rationality-based theories. Finally, the question of why Raskolnikov and others, including the reader, focus on the murder of the pawnbroker and forget the unintended murder of Lizaveta reveals a narrative strategy based on shame and guilt UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644697856?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644697856 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781644697856/original ER -