Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Harriet Murav, Liza Knapp, Victor Terras, Anthony Johae, and other scholars. The Intellectual Problem Ii / A.d. Nuttall -- Characteristics Of Genre And Plot Composition In Dostoevsky's Works / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Crime And Punishment : Psychology On Trial / Harriet Murav -- In Defense Of The Epilogue Of Crime And Punishment / David Matual -- The Resurrection From Inertia In Crime And Punishment / Liza Knapp -- Mediating The Distance : Prophecy And Alterity In Greek Tragedy And Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment / Naomi Rood -- How Dostoevsky Inscribes Thou Shalt Not Kill In A Killer's Heart : The Decalogue Taboo Internalized, The It Of It / Olga Meerson -- The Art Of Crime And Punishment / Victor Terras -- The Religious Symbolism Of Clothing In Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment / Janet Tucker -- Beyond The Will : Humiliation As Christian Necessity In Crime And Punishment / Henry M.w. Russell -- Towards An Iconography Of Crime And Punishment / Antony Johae -- The Other Lazarus In Crime And Punishment / Linda Ivanits. Edited And With An Introduction By Harold Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 285-288) And Index. "A 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. While Dostoevsky has been compared to such greats as Joseph Conrad, Flannery O'Connor, and Charles Dickens, few have created a work that reaches such a peak intensity and sustains it like a hell from which one cannot escape. Book jacket."--Jacket "A psychological novel in the great Russian tradition, Crime and Punishment asks the question: What is the nature of punishment for a person who commits a crime without remorse?" -- publisher website (July 2007)