Topic: Crime and punishment as a Psychological Novel.
Research Proposal
Objectives:
Firstly, to depict the overwhelming inner conflict of the protagonist’ mind
which determines the novel Crime and Punishment as Psychological Novel.
Secondly, to define/to show what is the relationship between crime and
human soul. This novel shows Fedor Dostoevsky’s emphasis on the
psychological analysis of inner feelings of the soul and the workings f the
intricate mind.
Thirdly, to discuss the central problem of human thought-the relation of
man to the world. The dual personality as the controlling idea behind the
murder and behind his punishment.
Fourthly, to trace out those points from Crime and Punishment by Fedor
Dostoevsky, for which we consider this novel as a psychological novel.
Fifthly, to discuss whether, this novel is successful or not as a typical
psychological novel.
Sixthly, to make a comparative study between Crime and Punishment and
other writings which are based on psychological account of a certain crime
from the psychological point of view.
Lastly, to discuss crime is followed by the desire of punishment and it’s
positive and negative sides in our practical life on the basis of reference from
Crime and Punishment.
Necessity:
1. This thesis paper would be very helpful for the readers to understand
easily, why Crime and Punishment is called as a psychological novel.
2. It would also very helpful for the readers to get some prior knowledge
about crime and human soul in very brief.
3. This thesis demands attention to the readers because the thrilling
description of the murder and then equally intense psychological analysis of
the disintegration of all the rational forces and the vital story that never loses
its grip on the reader’s imaginations and emotions.
4. This thesis paper would also very helpful for the readers to understand
how and why crime and psychological punishment are very much related to
our practical life on the basis of references from Crime and punishment. It
would also help them to reach towards a conclusion that if somebody have
committed a crime or a life the best way of punishing himself in his own
way.
5. This thesis will be a compact and concrete document and would be a very
good guideline for the fresh researchers in this field.
Means of Research:
Library: the available books, research papers, journals, periodicals, term
papers etc. from the accessible libraries will be under through study and
research.
Internet:
1. Digital Libraries
2. Web sites
3. Documents in the format of *txt, *pdf, *html, *doc will also be
accessed.
Group Discussion: interaction and evaluation among people who are well
concerned and interested in this specific field will be conduced and
conducted.
Methodology:
1. At first, I will collect many books then will start extensive reading of
the specific books. (3 weeks)
2. In the second phase, I will start Critical Reading of those books. (3
weeks)
3. In the third phase, I will begin to analyze the collecting data. (2
weeks)
4. In the fourth phase, I will begin to collect materials for my research.
(3 weeks)
5. In the fifth phase, after collecting materials and data for my research, I
will begin to write the research paper. (3 weeks)
Sources:
Public library, British Council, Library of Dhaka University, Internet,
Friends Book Corner, NUB Library etc.
Bibliograph
Beebe, Mourice. “The Three Motives of Raskolnikov: A
Reinterpretation of Crime and Punishment, College English,
XV11(1955), 151-158. A good analysis of hero’s reasons for
committing the crime.
Berdeyaev, Nicholas. Dostoevsky. New York, 1957
Blackmar, R.P. “Crime and Punishment: A study of Dostoevsky”, in
Essays in Modern Critism, ed. Ray B. West (New York, 1952),
pp.472-489.
Bohatee, Josef. Der Imperialismus Gedanke und die
Lebensphilosophie Dostoezwskijs. Graz, 1951. An exhaustive study of
the author’s philosophy.
Carr, Edward hallet. Dostoevsky (1821-1881), A New Biography.
Boston and New York, 1931. A particularly good treatment of the man
and novelist.
Friedman, Maurice. Problematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoevsky, Kafka,
Camus. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970.
Grossman, Leonid. Dostoevsky. Moscow, 1962. Among the best,
Soviet studies.
Jones, Malcom. “Dostoevsky’s Conception of the Idea”, Renaissance
and Modern studies, 13 (1969), 106-3
Larvin, Janko. Doestoevsky: A study. New York, 1961. A brief incisive
analysis of the major novels.
Lloyd. J. A. T. Fydor Dostoevsky. New York. 1947.
Likacs, Georg. Der russische Realismus in der Welt Literature. Berlin,
1948. A good Marxist interpretation. Provocative.
Magarschack, David. Dostoevsky. New York, 1961. A good, general
introduction.
Marx, Paul. “A Defense of the Epilogue to Crime and Punishment,
Bucknell Review, X (1961), 57-74.
Mirsky, D.S. History of Russian Literature. New York, 1949. A sober,
“cool” interpretation.
Pachmuss, Temira. F.M. Dostoevsky: Dualism and synthesis of the
Human Soul. Carbondale, Illinois, 1963.
Payne, Robert. Dostoevsky. New York, 1961. The best biography
available in English.
Rosen, Nathan. “Chaos and Dostoevsky’s Women”, Kenyon Review,
XX (1958), 257-277.
Rudicicina, Alexandra. “Crime and Myth: the Archetypal Pattern of
Rebirth in Three Novels of Dostoevsky.” 1973.
Seduro, V. Dostoevsky New York in Russian Literary Criticism, New
York: Columbia, 1957.
Simmons, Ernest J. Dostoevsky, The Making of a Novelist, London:
Oxford, 1950.
Simons, Jhon D. “The nature of Suffering in Schiller and
Dostoevsky,” Comparative Literature, 19 (1967), 160-178.
Snodrass, W. D. “Crime and Punishment: The Tenor of part One,”
Hudson Review, 1960.
Steiner, George. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, An Essay in the Old Criticism.
New York, 1959.
Trilling, Lionel. “Manners, Morals, and the Novel,” the Liberal
Imagination. New York, 1950.
Vivas, Eliseo. Creation and Discovery, New York: Noonday, 1955.
Wasiolek, Edward, (Editor). Crime and Punishment and the Critics,
San Francisco: Wordsworth, 1961.
Wellek, Rene (Editor). Dostoevsky: A collection of Critical Essays,
New York: Prentice Hall, 1962.
Wilson, Colin. The outsider, 1950.
Yarmolinsky, A vrahm, Dostoevsky, A life, New York: Criteron 1934.
Zenkovsky, V.V. A History of Russian Philosophy, New York, 1953.
