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Turned Inside Out : Reading the Russian Novel in Prison / Steven Shankman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shankman, Steven, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grossman, Vasiliĭ--Criticism and interpretation.
- Grossman, Vasiliĭ.
- Levinas, Emmanuel--Criticism and interpretation.
- Levinas, Emmanuel.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Imprisonment in literature.
- Prisoners--Books and reading--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Russian fiction--Study and teaching.
- Russian fiction.
- Russian fiction--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison , Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates.
- Contents:
- Incarceration and transcendence
- Thinking God on the basis of ethics in Levinas's later work
- Thinking God on the basis of ethics in Dostoevsky's major novels
- Dostoevsky's antisemitism and the torment of belief
- "The death of a certain God inhabiting the world behind the scenes" : loss and hope in otherwise than being and Vasily Grossman's life and fate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3493-4
- OCLC:
- 974401569
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