The Problems of Attribution in Researches on Fyodor Dostoevsky (Suggested Solutions Overview) Cover Image

Проблемы атрибуции в исследованиях о Ф. М. Достоевском (обзор предложенных решений)
The Problems of Attribution in Researches on Fyodor Dostoevsky (Suggested Solutions Overview)

Author(s): Liubov Alekseeva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: F. M. Dostoevsky; attribution; textual criticism; anonymous author; pseudonym; «Vremya» (The “Time”); “Epokha” (The “Era”); «Grazhdanin»

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a brief overview of existing researches dedicated to the problem of authorship, that is one of the major focuses of text studies, namely the attribution of anonymous and pseudonymous articles published in "The Time" and "The Epoch" magazines and in the weekly journal "Grazhdanin" ("The Citizen"). The issue of their attribution to F. M. Dostoevsky has been occupying the minds of the researches since the beginning of the 20th century and is still unsolved despite the fact that so much has been done in this domain, methods of text attribution have been elaborated and some attempts at establishing the authorship of articles were a success. By publishing this overview, the editorial board starts discussion on the problems of magazine and newspaper articles attribution whose authorship is ascribed or should be ascribed to Dostoevsky.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 3-10
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Russian