Changing Clothes in the Novel Crime and Punishment

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Author: Jasmina Vojvodić
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PhD in Philology, Professor, Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures, Section of Russian Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, I. Lučića St., 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.

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Vojvodić, Jasmina. “Changing Clothes in the Novel Crime and Punishment.” Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal, no. 3 (27), 2024, pp. 159–176. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2024-3-159-176
Received: 08 Apr. 2024
Published: 25 Sept. 2024
Issue: 2024 no. 3 (27)
Department: POETICS. CONTEXT
Pages: 159-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2024-3-159-176
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Keywords: clothing, poverty, love, headdress, Crime and Punishment.
Abstract: The article examines the clothing of the heroes in the novel Crime and Punishment. The clothes of the poor (rags, cheap materials) are analyzed, as well as clothes that hide and reveal (an axe invisible from the outside, blood on clothes), grotesque clothes, etc. The analysis particularly emphasizes the clothing of the lovers. The clothes of the characters speak both about the falseness of love as well as about sincere feelings and the development of love between two couples: Razumikhin-Dunia and Raskolnikov-Sonia. The change of Raskolnikov’s clothes, carried out with Razumikhin’s help, is the first step in the hero’s restoration. Sonia’s headdress (green drap-de-dames scarf) changes as she grows from a girl, almost a child, to a grown woman in the novel’s epilogue.

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