Open AccessThe Logical Basis of a Literary Text, or What Does Porfiry Petrovich Hide in F. M. Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”?
Author(s) -
Valentina E. Vetlovskaya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
problemy istoričeskoj poètiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-4642
pISSN - 1026-9479
DOI - 10.15393/j9.art.2020.7262
Subject(s) - narrative , punishment (psychology) , conviction , ambiguity , presentation (obstetrics) , epic , statement (logic) , perception , sociology , epistemology , psychology , literature , social psychology , aesthetics , philosophy , law , art , linguistics , political science , medicine , radiology
The article explores the role of logical connections in an epic text. It is these connections, according to the author of the article, that connect the individual components of the narrative (motifs, complexes of motifs) and make up in the reader’s perception for the missing elements. The reticence and failures to mention, common in fiction, appear in the narrative for various reasons. Sometimes due to the aesthetic principles of the writer who prefers ambiguity to a completed statement depriving readers of the opportunity to finish thinking over a vague idea. And sometimes, due to the author’s conviction that there is no need to explain the idea implied by what has been earlier said. But it also happens that the omissions in the narrative are engendered by the requirements for the presentation of a chosen topic, for example in crime fiction. But these reasons may go together as it occurs in Crime and Punishment. These ideas are illustrated by the analysis of one of the themes of the novel Crime and Punishment.