Teaching nineteenth-century Russian literature
Subtitle: essays in honor of Robert L. Belknap
By: edited by Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman
Series: Ars Rossica; Ars Rossika
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781618113498; 9781618113863
Subjects: Study and teaching; Russian literature; History and criticism
Other titles: Teaching 19th century Russian literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Cathy Popkin, Deborah Martinsen, Irina Reyfman; title: Text and teacher. The teacher and the text: the pragmatic sleuth in the classroom / Robin Feuer Miller; title: Text and context I. Teaching contexts / Robert L. Belknap; title: Text, then theory. Theorizing vs. teaching literary theory: what is to be done with Crime and punishment? / Olga Meerson; title: Text and language. Literature in the original for the defective detective, or teaching suspect grammar to unsuspecting students / Irina Reyfman; title: Text and epigraph. "The way of the grain": teaching The Brothers Karamazov through the novel's epigraph / Ksana Blank; title: Text and biblical text. Teaching Raskolnikov's dream: regarding the pain of others in the classroom / Liza Knapp; title: Text plus text. Chekhov's "In exile" and "The student": text/countertext as strategy / Andrew R. Durkin; title: Text plus text plus text. Three deaths: a boy, a goose, and an infant / Robert Louis Jackson; title: Text and reader I. Turgenev's preoccupations / Nicholas Dames; title: Text with blanks. This page left intentionally blank: Absences in Anna Karenina / Gary Saul Morson; title: Text and reader II. Getting away with murder: teaching Crime and punishment / Deborah A. Martinsen; title: Text and philosophy. Notes from a cave: teaching Notes from underground in a philosophy course / Nancy Workman; title: Text and context II. Dostoevsky's Notes from underground revisited, plus a few thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh / Ellen Chances; title: Text and printing. The birth of a novel from the work of journalism: teaching Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlevs / William Mills Todd III; title: Text and history. An inconvenient footnote: Lermontov's "Bela" and the Circassian expulsion / Jefferson J.A. Gatrall; title: Text in syllabus I. Teaching "Literature and empire": the case for Anna Karenina / Cathy Popkin; title: Text in Syllabus II. Reading for the self: unwrapping the nested autobiographies in Lermontov's A hero of our time / Rebecca Stanton; title: Text and genre. Unsettling students: road rage and the quest for fixity in Dead souls / Marcia A. Morris; title: Text, genre, and morality I. Searching for freedom in Eugene Onegin / Svetlana Grenier; title: Text, genre, and morality II. Examining Lensky's body: forensic pedagogy / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy; title: Text and performance. The power of pedagogy: dispelling the darkness in Tolstoy's drama / Maude Meisel; title: Unperformable text. "Visible only in very clear weather": teaching Chekhov's second acts / Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour.