Teaching nineteenth-century Russian literature : essays in honor of Robert L. Belknap / edited by Deborah Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman ; cover design by Ivan Grave ; Robert L. Belknap [and twenty one others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martinsen, Deborah, editor.

Popkin, Cathy, editor.

Reyfman, Irina, editor.

Grave, Ivan, cover designer.

Belknap, Robert L., contributor.

Belknap, Funder.

Series:

Ars Rossika.

Ars Rossica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--Study and teaching.

Russian literature.

Belknap, Robert L.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap, an outstanding teacher and scholar. The collected essays present concrete strategies for teaching the works of some of Russia's best-known writers: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. They address the teaching of these iconic works of Russian literature in different contexts and to different audiences, from undergraduate students reading Russian classics in the context of general education courses to graduate students exploring the larger context of Russian print culture. Most of the essays address teaching in English translation, a few in the original, but all offer useful strategies that can be adopted for teaching to any audience. Contributors include: Robert L. Belknap, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Ksana Blank, Ellen Chances, Nicholas Dames, Andrew R. Durkin, Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Robert Louis Jackson, Liza Knapp, Deborah A. Martinsen, Olga Meerson, Maude Meisel, Robin Feuer Miller, Marcia A. Morris, Gary Saul Morson, Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman, Rebecca Stanton, William Mills Todd III, and Nancy Workman.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Popkin, Cathy / Martinsen, Deborah / Reyfman, Irina

1. Text and Teacher. The Teacher and the Text: The Pragmatic Sleuth in the Classroom / Feuer Miller, Robin

2. Text and Context I. Teaching Contexts / Belknap, Robert L.

3. Text, then Theory. Theorizing vs. Teaching Literary Theory: What Is to Be Done with Crime and Punishment? / Meerson, Olga

4. Text and Language. Literature in the Original for the Defective Detective, or Teaching Suspect Grammar to Unsuspecting Students / Reyfman, Irina

5. Text and Epigraph. "The Way of the Grain": Teaching The Brothers Karamazov through the Novel's Epigraph / Blank, Ksana

6. Text and Biblical Text. Teaching Raskolnikov's Dream: Regarding the Pain of Others in the Classroom / Knapp, Liza

7. Text Plus Text. Chekhov's "In Exile" and "The Student": Text/Countertext as Strategy / Durkin, Andrew R.

8. Text Plus Text Plus Text. Three Deaths: A Boy, a Goose, and an Infant / Jackson, Robert Louis

9. Text and Reader I. Turgenev's Preoccupations / Dames, Nicholas

10. Texts with Blanks. This Page Left Intentionally Blank: Absences in Anna Karenina / Morson, Gary Saul

11. Text and Reader II. Getting Away with Murder: Teaching Crime and Punishment / Martinsen, Deborah A.

12. Text and Philosophy. Notes from a Cave: Teaching Notes from Underground in a Philosophy Class / Workman, Nancy

13. Text and Context II. Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground Revisited, Plus a Few Thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh / Chances, Ellen

14. Text and Printing. The Birth of a Novel from the Work of Journalism: Teaching Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlyovs / Todd, William Mills

15. Text and History. An Inconvenient Footnote: Lermontov's "Bela" and the Circassian Expulsion / Gatrall, Jefferson J. A.

16. Text in Syllabus I. Teaching "Literature and Empire": The Case for Anna Karenina / Popkin, Cathy

17. Text in Syllabus II. Reading for the Self: Unwrapping the Nested Autobiographies in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time / Stanton, Rebecca

18. Text and Genre. Unsettling Students: Road Rage and the Quest for Fixity in Dead Souls / Morris, Marcia A.

19. Text, Genre, and Morality I. Searching for Freedom in Eugene Onegin / Grenier, Svetlana

20. Text, Genre, and Morality II. Examining Lensky's Body: Forensic Pedagogy / Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Catharine

21. Text and Performance. The Power of Pedagogy: Dispelling the Darkness in Tolstoy's Drama / Meisel, Maude

22. Unperformable Text. "Visible Only in Very Clear Weather": Teaching Chekhov's Second Acts / Klosty Beaujour, Elizabeth

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61811-386-0

1-61811-360-7

OCLC:

876187765