Symbolism in Dostoevsky's Short Fiction

• Main Authors: Li, Sz-Cheng, 李思辰
• Other Authors: Joel Janicki
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93303073163192965119

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 英語學系 === 105 === This research discusses how symbols function in short fictions of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) with a focus on three works written in his post-Siberian years: The House of the Dead (1862), Notes from Underground (1864), and The Meek One (1876). Symbols provide unlimited opportunities to examine and re-examine the Russian author’s works with varied dimensions to explore his themes. To understand how the symbol is orchestrated in Dostoevsky’s writing system, Nelson Goodman’s concept of exemplification serves as a cognitive and accessible approach to navigate in the Russian writer’s symbolic world.