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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046714903321

Autore

Shankman Steven <1947->

Titolo

Turned Inside Out : Reading the Russian Novel in Prison / / Steven Shankman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-8101-3493-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Disciplina

891.73009

Soggetti

Imprisonment in literature

Prisoners - Books and reading - United States

Russian fiction - Study and teaching

Russian fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.