The Mouse and The Icon: on the Ethnographic Roots of Dostoevsky’s Poetics

The article focuses on a well-known episode of the novel by Dostoevsky Demons where the narrator calls placing the mouse in the icon case “a senseless, mocking blasphemy.” Unlike the obvious narrative function — to symbolize a series of coming catastrophes — internal semantic mechanism of blasphemy...

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Main Author: Sergey V. Alpatov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2020-03-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/Alpatov.pdf
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