Crime and punishment

The text of Crime and Punishment -- Backgrounds and sources -- Essays in criticism: [The nihilists and Raskolnikov's new idea] -- [Dostoevsky's technique of writing] -- [The five acts of Crime and Punishment] -- [Why Dostoevsky lives in the Twentieth Century] -- The art of Crime and Punishment -- Traditional symbolism in Crime and Punishment -- Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment -- The world of Raskolnikov -- [Dostoevsky, the nature of man, and evil] -- The revolt against Mother Earth --

The three motives of Raskolnikov: a reinterpretation of Crime and Punishment

Dostoevski and the dream

[Raskolnikov's self-destructive should]

The counterpoint of experience

Recurrent imagery in Crime and Punishment

[The problem of guilt in Dostoevsky's fiction]

Dostoevsky as Rorschach test

The theme of the double, Sylvia Plath, and Dostoevsky

The Marx-Dostoevsky duel

[A Marxist summing-up of Dostoevsky]

[The 1953 outline for the study of Dostoevsky in Soviet universities]

[The 1955 outline for the study of Dostoevsky in Soviet universities]

[The construction of the novel]

[Dostoevsky's descriptions: the characters and the city]

[Plot structure and Raskolnikov's oscillations].