The Novel Creativity of Feodor Dostoevsky: Problems of Textual Criticism and Poetics
The article deals with the problems of textual criticism and poetics of Dostoevsky’s work based on the philological analysis of the writer’s novels of the 1860s and 1870s. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to systematize and critically comprehend the existing methodology and scientific approaches to the analysis and interpretation of Dostoevsky’s work. The novelty of the research lies in the definition of an effective methodology for a comprehensive study of the writer’s texts using text criticism and source analysis. One of the main tasks of the research is the textual analysis of primary sources-handwritten materials that focus on the creative ideas of the writer, including novel ones. When studying the problems of textual criticism of Dostoevsky’s work, special attention is paid to the linguotextological features of the material, the specifics of the author’s style and language, the semantics and poetics of the text. The study of Dostoevsky’s handwriting in combination with the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of the source opens up the possibility of a new, refined reading of the writer’s autographs and allows scholars to clarify the content and discover unknown sources of the author’s creative ideas.