From Lutman's symbolic sphere to Grimas's narratology, study of Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment"

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1 PhD Student of Art Research, Departman of Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of French Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran Iran

3 Department of French Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Cultural semiotics is one of the fields of semiotics that is associated with the name of Yuri Lutman. Lotman considers culture as a symbolic system in confrontation and interaction with other symbolic systems. From Lutman's point of view, every culture is self-systematic and what is outside the scope of its own culture is known as non-culture. The theory of narrativeness and occurrence based on the theory of Lotman's symbolic sphere considers the event as a kind of change of the norms in the symbolic sphere, which corresponds to the definition of the event from the perspective of Grimas. The present article analyzes the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, relying on Lutman's cultural semiotics and Grimas's narrative process. The purpose of this study is to investigate the practical capabilities of Lutman's theory of cultural semiotics in comparison with Grimassi's narratology, in order to show how the Russian writer presents the main values, including ideology, religion and politics, in opposition to two poles. It compares itself (Russia) and the other (the West). Raskolnikov's metamorphosis and the transition from the border of "other" to "self" in the last part of the novel is formed through a nightmare, which corresponds to passing through an unfavorable situation, sudden and without intervention of the subject. Therefore, the new situation refers to the "self and not the other" approach; The approach that is related to the function of identification and ideology of culture considers Russian culture superior to the West.

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
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November 2024
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