RUS 65–Dostoevsky
Professor David Sloane, Spring 2008

Library Research Sources & Strategies
Prepared by Chao Chen, Reference Librarian at Tisch Library

Cultural & Historical Background   ·   Literary Surveys, Terms & Concepts ·  Critical Biography & Primary Sources

Literary Criticism and Interpretation: &

How to Cite ·  RefWorks ·  Renew Books ·  Interlibrary Loan Request

Encyclopedia of Russian History: from the Christianization of Kiev to the Break-up of the U.S.S.R [Ref. DK36 .P39 1993]

Identifies people, events, movements, organizations, and institutions that have influenced the development of Russian history and culture

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature [Stacks: PG2951 .R68 2001]

"The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature" is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved worldwide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering such diverse subjects as women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and emigre writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature"

The Cambridge companion to the classic Russian novel [Stacks: PG3098.3 .C33 1998]

"The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of a tradition that produced some of the most influential novels of the Western world. In newly-commissioned essays by prominent scholars, the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and many others is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading, and all quotations are in English."

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms  (online)

Dictionary of Literary Biography (online)

Or, use the print version, Volume 238: Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky [Ref. PG3098.3 .R874 2001]

The Dostoevsky archive: firsthand accounts of the novelist from contemporaries' memoirs and rare periodicals, most translated into English for the first time, with a detailed lifetime chronology and annotated bibliography. [Stacks: PG3328 .D6425 1997]

Complete letters. edited and translated by David Lowe and Ronald Meyer. [Stacks: PG3328.A3 L68 1988]

Includes bibliographies and indexes:
v. 1. 1832-1859 -- v. 2. 1860-1867 -- v. 3. 1868-1871 -- v. 4. 1872-1877 -- v. 5. 1878-1881.

The Dostoevsky encyclopedia [Stacks: PG3328.A09 L36 2004]

A Dostoevsky dictionary. [Stacks: PG3328.A09 C5 1983]

Character names in Dostoevsky's fiction [Stack: PG3328.Z7 C477 1982]

• Tufts Library Catalog [http://library.tufts.edu/]
• WorldCat.  [From the Tisch Library website, http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/, select Other Library Catalogs]

[See a sample search in the Catalog]

You get an overview of the Tisch library book collection on Dostoevsky:

Pay special attention to the source of the articles—the journals in the following select results:

1.	The Other Lazarus in Crime and Punishment Linda Ivanits Russian Review > Vol. 61, No. 3 (Jul., 2002), pp. 341-357
2.	The Artistic Failure of Crime and Punishment Hugh Mercer Curtler Journal of Aesthetic Education > Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 1-11
3.	Traditional Symbolism in Crime and Punishment George Gibian PMLA > Vol. 70, No. 5 (Dec., 1955), pp. 979-996
6.	The Religious Symbolism of Clothing in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Janet Tucker The Slavic and East European Journal > Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 253-265
11.	The Rise of Crime and Punishment from the Air of the Media Konstantine Klioutchkine Slavic Review > Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 88-108