The Flower Motif in Dostoevsky’s novel White nights

The Flower Motif in Dostoevsky’s novel White nights

The article concerns the motif of flowers and its role in Dostoevsky’s novel White nights. The motif permeates the whole novel and manifests itself when the characters, nature, or single moments are compared with flowers, thus sending the reader’s thought to the epigraph. The article examines the in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maria M. Alekseeva
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2019-03-01
Series:	Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал
Subjects:	dostoevsky motif flower white nights dreamer nastenka epigraph turgenev’s poem
Online Access:	http://dostmirkult.ru/images/DOST_2019-1-int-1-179-184.pdf

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