Table of Contents:
  • The text
  • Backgrounds and Sources
  • Criticism: The Nihilists and Raskolnikov's new ideal / N. Strakhov
  • How minute changes of consciousness caused Raskolnikov to commit murder / Leo Tolstoy
  • The history of the writing of the novel / Sergei V. Belov
  • Religion of suffering / Vicomte E. M. de Vogue
  • Crime and Punishment (1866) / Vladimir Nabokov
  • Dostoevsky's search for motives in the notebooks / Konstantin Mochulsky
  • The first sentence in Crime and Punishment, the word "Crime", and other matters / Vadim Kozhinov
  • Philosophical pro and contra in Part one of Crime and Punishment / Robert Louis Jackson
  • The death of Marmeladov / Konrad Onasch
  • The nihilism of Sonia Marmeladova / Michael R. Katz
  • The wisdom of a Iurodivaia / Harriet Murav
  • Dunia Raskol'nikov, the aesthetic consequence of virtue in Crime and Punishment / Gary Rosenshield
  • Self-sacrifice vs. saving a sister, the roles of sister and brother / Anna Berman
  • Traditional symbolism in Crime and Punishment / George Gibian
  • The world of Raskolnikov / Joseph Frank
  • The revolt against Mother Earth / Vyachselav Ivanov
  • Recurrent imagery in Crime and Punishment / Ralph E. Matlaw
  • The problem of guilt in Dostoevsky's fiction / A Bem
  • "It was I who killed the old woman and her sister", modes of confession in Crime and Punishment / Julian W. Connolly
  • The construction of the novel; Dostoevsky's descriptions; the character and the city / Leonid P. Grossman
  • Plot structure and Raskolnikov's oscillations / F. I. Evnin
  • The hero in Dostoevsky's art; the idea in Dostoevsky / Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Puzzle and mystery; the narrative poles of knowing, Crime and Punishment / Michael Holquist
  • Sideshadowing and its possibilities; disease #3; hypothetical time, crime and chronicity / Gary Saul Morson
  • Raskolnikov, Karakazov and the etiology of a 'new word' / Claudia Verhoeven
  • A triple take: Crime and Punishment in Woody Allen's cinematic universe / Ellen Chances
  • Serialization of Crime and Punishment in The Russian Herald (1866)
  • Selected bibliography.