Summary of the 2nd International Online Conference “Crime and Punishment: Current State of Research” (Moscow, February 28 – March 2, 2023)

Abstract

The summary is compiled from the abstracts and summaries provided by the participants of the 2nd International Online Conference “Crime and Punishment: Current State of Research.” The conference is part of the work on the next issue of the series Dostoevsky’s Works: Current State of Research that will be dedicated to Crime and Punishment. The conference reports are devoted to the hermeneutics of the text, the historical and cultural allusions in the text, the role of the books mentioned in the novel, the problems of translation of Dostoevsky into different national and cultural languages, the novel’s reflections in literature, the ways of teaching the work at school and university. The summary provides an account of the latest trends in the study and teaching of Crime and Punishment.

Keywords

• dostoevsky
• crime and punishment
• translations of the novel
• teaching methodology
• system of images
• hermeneutics of the text
• historical commentary
• legal commentary
• the concept of “new”
• the motif of horse-beating
• st. petersburg text
• theatrical and cinematographic adaptations
• museum exposition
• george henry lewes’ physiology
• napoleon
• dante
• schiller
• byron
• hugo
• turgenev
• bunin
• maugham
• narokov
• mumleyev