Leo Tolstoy’s Resurrection and English Crime Fiction: Between Western Tradition and New Ideas

Bibliographic Details
Parent link:Forum for World Literature Studies
Vol. 11, No. 2.— 2019.— [P. 331-344]
Main Author: Ayzikova I. A. Irina Aleksandrovna
Corporate Author: Национальный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет Школа базовой инженерной подготовки Отделение иностранных языков
Other Authors: Matveenko I. A. Irina Alekseevna
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The article deals with analysis of typological similarities of the Englishsocial-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.
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://www.fwls.org/uploads/soft/190810/1-1ZQ0130601.pdf#page=164
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
KOHA link:https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=663988