Title	Raskolnikov Remembers : Memory in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Creator	Hudspith, Sarah
Contributor	Crime and Punishment at 150 (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.); University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; Green College (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued	2016-10-21
Description	This presentation will examine the function of memory in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Memory and remembering have been discussed as a key feature of Dostoevsky's poetics, notably in Diane Oenning Thompson's book The Brothers Karamazov and the Poetics of Memory (Cambridge, 1991), but has not been examined in detail with regard to Crime and Punishment. The talk will focus on the protagonist Raskolnikov and how he engages in remembering, as this has an impact on the text in a number of ways. It will explore how the process of remembering and its antithesis, forgetting, plays a part in the development of Raskolnikov's psyche, his motivations and his redemption. The talk will also relate memory to the temporal matrix of the novel's narrative structure, and it will also demonstrate how memory connects Dostoevsky's original plan to write the novel in the first person, with the final third-person narrative.
Subject	CP150; Dostoevsky; Crime and Punishment; Raskolnikov; Narrative; Memory; Temporality
Geographic Location	Russia
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2021-05-05
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0397244
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78127
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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