num_pages: 302
description: - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of Dostoyevsky's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold BloomA master portrayer of extreme situations and characters, Dostoevsky explained that such depictions truly reveal the human condition. Indeed, in Dostoevsky's 
  Crime and Punishment
 (first serialized in 1866) what the reader most remembers is the intensity of the sweating, disturbed murderer, during his planning of the murder, during the brutal act itself, and during his psychological breakdown that occurs afterwards.The intellectual problem II / A.D. NuttallCharacteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works / Mikhail BakhtinCrime and punishment: psychology on trial / Harriet MuravIn defense of the epilogue of Crime and punishment / David MatualThe resurrection from inertia in Crime and punishment / Liza KnappMediating the distance: prophecy and alterity in Greek tragedy and Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment / Naomi RoodHow Dostoevsky inscribes "Thou shalt not kill" in a killer's heart: the decalogue taboo internalized, the it of "it" / Olga MeersonThe art of Crime and punishment / Victor TerrasThe religious symbolism of clothing in Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment / Janet TuckerBeyond the will: humiliation as Christian necessity in Crime and punishment / Henry M.W. RussellTowards an iconography of Crime and punishment / Antony JohaeThe other Lazarus in Crime and punishment / Linda Ivanits
language: English
title: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment
titlecomplete: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment
genres: Classics, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Russian Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 173
publisher: Chelsea House Pub