Crime and Punishment (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

  Bakhtin's analysis of language and point of view gives particular attention to the way in which voices and perspectives intersect and intermingle in Dostoevsky's novel.

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, edited by George Gibian, Norton, 1989.

  This edition of the novel contains numerous essays and documents that illuminate various aspects of the novel, from its critical reception to its symbolic and literary attributes.

• "Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich," in The Oxford Companion to English Literature, fifth edition, edited by Margaret Drabble, Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 286.

  Summarizes Dostoyevsky's relationship to English literature, including his travels in England, his admiration of Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, and British reactions to his own works.

• Donald Fanger, Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Harvard University Press, 1965.

  Fanger explores the relation of Dostoevsky's novel to the literary tradition which preceded it, and he focuses on the treatment of the setting of the novel, the city of St. Petersburg.

• Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-71, Princeton University Press, 1995.

  Frank provides a detailed account of the novel's themes, its genesis, and its relation to the literary and historical events of its day.

• Michael Holquist, Dostoevsky and the Novel, Northwestern University Press, 1977.

  This book discusses the way in which Dostoevsky's novel reflects narrative patterns of the past, including detective tales and wisdom tales.

• R. L. Jackson, editor, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Crime and Punishment, Prentice Hall, 1974.

  This book contains over a dozen insightful essays that are devoted to major themes and patterns in the novel.

• Malcom V. Jones, Dostoevsky: The Novel of Discord, Harper & Row, 1976.

  Jones discusses the underlying theme of psychological and emotional disorder in Crime and Punishment.

• Janko Lavrin, Dostoevsky: A Study, Macmillan, 1947.

  Lavrin discusses Dostoyevsky's technique, including his ability to weave profound psychological and spiritual insights into his complex narratives.

• Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work, translated by Michael A. Minihan, Princeton University Press, 1967.

  Mochulsky's biography of Dostoevsky highlights the writer's spiritual quest.

• Richard Peace, Dostoyevsky: An Examination of the Major Novels, Cambridge University Press, 1971.

  Peace focuses on the symbolic division within Raskolnikov's personality and the way in which this division is reflected in the characters surrounding him.

• Gary Rosenshield, Crime and Punishment: The Techniques of the Omniscient Author, The Peter De Ridder Press, 1978.

  This book offers a close analysis of Dostoevsky's manipulation of point of view and narrative perspective in the novel.

• George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, Dutton, 1971.

  Steiner places Crime and Punishment in the context of Dostoyevsky's lifetime achievement, stressing the novel's moral, dramatic, and psychological dimensions.

• Edward Wasiolek, Dostoevsky: The Major Fiction, MIT Press, 1964.

  Wasiolek's discussion of the novel focuses on its exploration of the central characters and their personalities.