Traditional Symbolism in Crime and Punishment
- 2 December 1955
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
- Vol. 70 (5) , 979-996
- https://doi.org/10.2307/459881
Abstract
It may seem paradoxical to claim that critics have not sufficiently concerned themselves with Dostoevsky's attack against rationalism in Crime and Punishment; yet this aspect of the novel has frequently failed to receive adequate attention, not because it has been overlooked, but because often it has been immediately noticed, perfunctorily mentioned, and then put out of mind as something obvious. Few writers have examined the consequence of the anti-rationalistic tenor of the novel: the extent to which it is paralleled by the structural devices incorporated in the work.Keywords
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