Two Thoughts with but a Single Mind
Subtitle: Crime and Punishment and the
Publisher: Cassandrine Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pasadena CA, USA
Number of pages: 182
Table of contents: title: Introduction …1; title: (Historical background of the novel: where Dostoevsky’s mind was in 1865.  Synopsis of the plot.); title: Part I.; title: Chap. 1. In Author’s Purgatory, or, Old Wine in New Bottles …16; title: (Dostoevsky’s problem of how to write a novel about the workings of one person’s mind, while maintaining the cognitive principles of contrast and coherence basic to literary composition.); title: Fig. 1. Icon of St. Elijah (Ilia): details …22; title: Chap. 2. Two Thoughts with but a Single Mind …23; title: (Literary problems of and Dostoevsky’s handling of allegory and metaphor; his choice to split both Raskolnikov and the story.); title: Chap. 3. It was a Dark and Stormy Night …35; title: (The literary construction of symbols and symbolism, and how Dostoevsky applied this technique to Crime and Punishment.); title: Chap. 4. The Poof! Perplex …42; title: (Handling Raskolnikov’s divided mind; reification as a technique to show Raskolnikov’s possible choices.); title: Chap. 5. Laughing Yourself Purple, or, The Whore of Babylon …52; title: (Razumikhin; the allegorical names, and why the characters keep saying they are “related” to each other; Porfirii and symbolic colors.); title: Chap. 6. The Battle of the Gods and the Giants …61; title: (Luzhin, the rational egoist; the literal and metaphorical struggles; the metaphor of Lebeziatnikov’s miraculously improved eyesight.); title: Part II; title: Chap. 7. The Hungry She-Wolf …69; title: (Dostoevsky’s Russian mysticism; the healthy vs. unhealthy in Raskolnikov.); title: Chap. 8. When Sonia’s Not at Home …80; title: (Svidrigailov, the sensual egoist and liar; his neighbor Sonia’s part in Raskolnikov’s epiphany—more tenets of mysticism.); title: Chap 9. The Ghost of Topers Future …93; title: (30 pieces of silver; Marmeladov’s function; how the metaphorical events, not the “real” ones, dictate the time-line.); title: Chap. 10. Yet Here’s a Spot …101; title: (Katerina Ivanovna; Dostoevsky’s symbolic use of housing.); title: Chap. 11. Renovations in the House of Mirrors …110; title: (Mikolka and the symbols of repainting: changing motives for the murder; Mikolka and Gogol.); title: Fig. 2. Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan: detail …122; title: Chap. 12. Hellfire in Arcadia …123; title: (Pan, the Devil, and Svidrigailov.); title: Chap. 13. Lord of the Flies …138; title: (Svidrigailov’s battle with Dunia; defeat at Adrianople.); title: Epilogue. Seeing Double …148; title: (More aspects of Dostoevsky’s use of contrast and coherence, reification, and metaphor; the organization of the novel at the metaphorical level; fire and other motifs; Aliona and Lizaveta.); title: Appendix …168; title: (The names of the characters in the novel and their meanings.); title: Bibliography …176