Crime+and+Punishment+Research+Topics

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 * Independent Research Presentation Topics **
 * Period 3: 2014-2015
 * Period 4: 2014-2015

**Book Analysis Through Critical Theory** Comprehensive Criticism Quote Chart: Click here to see a study guide for the quote identification test. You will have to identify who said the quote or who the narrator is refering to or discussing. Psychoanalytical Criticism: Textual Support: Parts 1,2,3 ; Textual Support: Parts 4,5,6 Marxist Criticism: Textual Support: Parts 1,2,3; Textual Support: Parts 4,5,6
 * 1) What unconscious motives (repressed wounds, fears, unresolved conflicts and guilty desires) are evident in the main characters? How do these help structure the work?
 * 2) Is it possible to relate a character's adult behavior to early experiences in the family? What do these patterns of family dynamics and patterns reveal?
 * 3) How might recurrent or striking dream symbols reveal what the narrator or characters' unconscious desires, fears, or conflicts?
 * 1) Does the work reinforce (intentionally or not) capitalist, imperialist or other classist values?
 * 2) Does the work reveal and invite the reader to condemn oppressive socioeconomic forces?
 * 3) How does the work reflect the socioeconomic conditions of the time in which it was written and/or set? What do these conditions reveal about the history of a class struggle?
 * 4) How might the work be seen as a criticism of organized religion?

Feminist Criticism: Textual Support: Parts 1,2,3 ; Textual Support 4,5,6
 * 1) What does the work reveal about the role of the father/man as authority concerning economic, political, social, or psychological functions?
 * 2) Does the work offer the idea of sisterhood as a means of resisting the ideas of patriarchy?
 * 3) What does the work suggest about the ways race, class, and/or other cultural factors influence women's experiences?

Structuralist Criticism: Textual Support: Parts 1,2,3 ; Structuralist Criticism Parts 4,5,6
 * 1) How should the work be classified in terms of its genre?

Cultural Criticism: Textual Support: Parts 1,2,3 ; Cultural Criticism Parts 4,5,6 Taken from: Tyson, Lois. //Critical Theory Today.New York: Garland, 1999.//
 * 1) How does the work compare to other texts of the time concerning penal codes, birthing practices, educational priorities, treatment of children under law, and other art forms? In other words, what does this work add to our understanding of the "human experience" in this setting?

**Class Work**

**TBA:** Add an example from the novel to the discussion threads on psychoanalysis, Marxist, feminist, and cultural (not structuralist) for Part 1. There are 5 discussion questions based on the 5 theories of criticism. Your examples should have a short quote with page number and brief explanation (2 sentences) of how it answers the proposed question.

**Part 3 and 4:** Add an example from the novel to the discussion threads for Part 3 and/or Part 4. Respond to at least 5 posts. Your examples should have a short quote with part, chapter, page number and a brief (2 sentence) explanation of how it answers the proposed question.

**Part 5 and 6:** Add an example from the novel to the discussion threads for Part 5 and/or Part 6. Respond to at least 5 posts. Your examples should have a short quote with part, chapter, page number and a brief (2 sentence) explanation of how it answers the proposed question.