TY - JOUR
T1 - Leo Tolstoy’s resurrection and English crime fiction
T2 - Between western tradition and new ideas
AU - Aizikova, I. A.
AU - Matveenko, I. A.
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Acknowledgement: We cordially thank Marcus Levitt, Professor of Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, who performed editing the language of the paper. Funding: This research was supported by Tomsk Polytechnic University CEP.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The article deals with analysis of typological similarities of the English social-criminal novel and Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection. Its relevance is conditioned by the opportunity to extend the background of Russian-English literary cross-cultural relationships in order to specify the points of attraction and repulsion between the English criminal novels and that by Tolstoy as well as their different national traditions and literary epochs. The similarities of English and Russian novel models are obvious at various levels: focus on a fact, social determinism of the heroes, criticism of unjust social system, trial scenes, origin of hero-criminal, system of characters, oppositions in time and space depiction, descriptions of prison. However, taking into account the differences in historical periods, conditions of literary evolution and individual development, one could say that these features were incorporated into a new context of the Russian classical novel with great modifications.1
AB - The article deals with analysis of typological similarities of the English social-criminal novel and Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection. Its relevance is conditioned by the opportunity to extend the background of Russian-English literary cross-cultural relationships in order to specify the points of attraction and repulsion between the English criminal novels and that by Tolstoy as well as their different national traditions and literary epochs. The similarities of English and Russian novel models are obvious at various levels: focus on a fact, social determinism of the heroes, criticism of unjust social system, trial scenes, origin of hero-criminal, system of characters, oppositions in time and space depiction, descriptions of prison. However, taking into account the differences in historical periods, conditions of literary evolution and individual development, one could say that these features were incorporated into a new context of the Russian classical novel with great modifications.1
KW - Caleb Williams
KW - English crime fiction
KW - Leo Tolstoy
KW - Resurrection
KW - Social-criminal novel
KW - William Godwin
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M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85072969320
VL - 11
SP - 331
EP - 344
JO - Forum for World Literature Studies
JF - Forum for World Literature Studies
SN - 1949-8519
IS - 2
ER -