![]() ![]() Martinsen synthesizes here the wisdom and experience of decades reading, discussing, analyzing, and teaching the novel… Her insights on characterization, emotion, and the subconscious are carefully and thoughtfully embedded in her analysis of Crime and Punishment. ∽eborah Martinsen’s Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment : A Reader’s Guide is a slim but erudite volume for readers and teachers of the 1866 novel. - Carol Apollonio, Dostoevsky Studies (2022: Vol. ![]() More importantly, we are inspired by this communication from an intellectual at the top of her game and by the guidance it offers as we seek to live ethical lives in our own thinking, writing and teaching. From this book we learn fresh, bracing new ways of reading a text that we may have mistakenly thought that we fully understood. … A great teacher and scholar lives on in the ideas shares, the conversations she inspires, and the example she sets. Accessible, insightful, deceptively slight in size, A Reader’s Guide will offer something new to readers at all stages of their Dostoevsky journey: seasoned experts, teachers, students, and curious newcomers. In this extraordinary book, distinguished scholar Deborah Martinsen draws upon a lifetime of scholarship in Dostoevsky studies, narrative theory, and ethics, as well as decades of classroom teaching, to craft a riveting, efficient introduction to Dostoevsky’s great novel. ![]()
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