美國文學과 Dostoevsky : Poe, Warren과의 比較를 중심으로 = Tragic Themes in Poe, Warren, and Dostoevsky

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Dostoevsky writes in the same tradition with some of the tragic novelists in America, such as poe, Hawthorne, and Melville in the 19th century and Faulkner and Warren in the 20th century in that his deep concern is with the depravity of human beings. Especially with Poe, whom Dostoevsky admired and introduced to the Russian reader, and Warren, who started writing 80 years later than the Russian novelist, Dostoevsky seems to share a lot of parallel concerns. For example, these three writers produced literature in times of great change and declining faith, and all three were influenced by Christianity which stressed human imperfectibility.
In particular, Dostoevsky’s world as depicted in 〈Notes from the Underground〉 and 〈Crime and punishment〉seems to echo Poe’s psychological abnormality, his so-called perverseness. perverseness as Poe defines it is the “overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong’s sake.” It is also interesting to note that Poe’s “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Dostoevsky’s 〈Notes from the underground〉were written at the same time each of their wives was dying. And, in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Dostoevsky’s〈Crime and Punishment〉, the motive of the murder is likewise undear.
Raskolnikov finds his reflection in Robert Penn Warren’s jeremiah Beaumont in that both seek justice for its sake, step over the limits of man, and finally realize it was selfish needs that goaded them on. They are in a sense “god-players” who attempt to manipulate individuals in the name of justice. Unlike Poe, Warren and dostoevsky make their heroes find new meanings in life through suffering; Poe’s characters are left in despair, at the end of their rope.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 미소사회의 변화
• Ⅱ. Poe와 Dostoevsky
• Ⅲ. Dostoevsky와 Warren
• Ⅳ. 결론