Information about the author:
Tatyana A. Kasatkina
Tatiana A. Kasatkina, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, Head of the Research Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture”, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0875-067X
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Abstract:
This summary is compiled from the abstracts and theses provided by the participants of the 2nd International Online Conference “Crime and Punishment: Current State of Research.” The conference is part of the work on the latest issue of the series Dostoevsky’s Works: Current State of Research, dedicated to Crime and Punishment. The conference reports focus on the hermeneutics of the text, the historical and cultural allusions within the text, the role of the books mentioned in the novel, the problems of translating Dostoevsky into different national and cultural languages, the novel’s reflections in literature, and the ways of teaching the work at both school and university. The summary provides an insight into the latest trends in the study and teaching of Crime and Punishment.
Keywords: Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, translations of the novel, teaching methodology, system of images, hermeneutics of the text, historical commentary, legal commentary, the concept of “new,” the motif of horse-beating, St. Petersburg text, theatrical and cinematographic adaptations, museum exposition, George Henry Lewes’ Physiology, Napoleon, Dante, Schiller, Byron, Hugo, Turgenev, Bunin, Maugham, Narokov, Mumleyev.
