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Crime and Punishment at 150 (2016)
Crime and Punishment in Networks Kitzinger, Chloë
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Among many methods for analyzing literary form borrowed from the social and applied sciences in recent years, one of the most productive has proved to be the study of networks. Recent work by Franco Moretti, Caroline Levine, and others has used network theory to explore configurations of characters and institutions in works from Hamlet and The Story of the Stone to Bleak House and The Wire. Built around an intense series of collisions (verbal and otherwise) between characters thrown into one another’s proximity by the urban spaces of St. Petersburg, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment suggests itself as ideal material for the tools of network analysis, which promises to bring out under-explored facets of its character-system — in particular, those that cluster less readily around the overwhelming presence of Raskolnikov and his crime. Teaching the novel to students who are often more familiar with techniques for gathering and visualizing data than with literary interpretation – and bearing in mind Carol Apollonio’s revelatory account of its traffic in gossip and rumors – I suggest that we have something to gain by attending to the shifting centers of the “social networks” of Crime and Punishment. My paper discusses a variety of possibilities for mapping these networks with students and using them in the classroom.
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Crime and Punishment in Networks
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2016-10-22
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Among many methods for analyzing literary form borrowed from the social and applied sciences in recent years, one of the most productive has proved to be the study of networks. Recent work by Franco Moretti, Caroline Levine, and others has used network theory to explore configurations of characters and institutions in works from Hamlet and The Story of the Stone to Bleak House and The Wire. Built around an intense series of collisions (verbal and otherwise) between characters thrown into one another’s proximity by the urban spaces of St. Petersburg, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment suggests itself as ideal material for the tools of network analysis, which promises to bring out under-explored facets of its character-system — in particular, those that cluster less readily around the overwhelming presence of Raskolnikov and his crime. Teaching the novel to students who are often more familiar with techniques for gathering and visualizing data than with literary interpretation – and bearing in mind Carol Apollonio’s revelatory account of its traffic in gossip and rumors – I suggest that we have something to gain by attending to the shifting centers of the “social networks” of Crime and Punishment. My paper discusses a variety of possibilities for mapping these networks with students and using them in the classroom.
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eng
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2021-05-10
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0397377
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Unreviewed
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