Liminal Space In Crime And Punishment

This research analyzes the liminal space in Crime and Punishment,including the city of Petersburg,urban architectures like the bridge and the tavern,together with human.By careful literature review of Dostoevsky and his novels,reading space theories and relevant theories,the study intends to clarify the meanings of liminal space in the area of poetics and philosophy.The significances of this research are as follow: portraying the functions of bridges and taverns that are important configurations of space but are regrettably neglected by researchers from the prospective of liminal space;analyzing how liminal space provides a spatial basis for polyphonic novels,which is marginal,hybrid,and ambiguous;complementing and extending the series of “threshold” which is proposed by Bakhtin in his work Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics;exploring the impact of illness in novel by assuming illness as rite of passage which enables interactions among different discourses and cultures,as well as offering protagonists and readers the opportunity to go beyond dualistic thinking;studying the meanings of spatial experiments in Crime and Punishment for modern people.