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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Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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| Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/Alpatov.pdf |
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