Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature : : Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap / / ed. by Deborah A. Martinsen, Irina Reyfman, Cathy Popkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
• Funder: Belknap
• MitwirkendeR: Belknap, Robert L.,; Blank, Ksana,; Chances, Ellen,; Dames, Nicholas,; Durkin, Andrew R.,; Feuer Miller, Robin,; Gatrall, Jefferson J. A.,; Grenier, Svetlana,; Jackson, Robert Louis,; Klosty Beaujour, Elizabeth,; Knapp, Liza,; Martinsen, Deborah A.,; Martinsen, Deborah,; Meerson, Olga,; Meisel, Maude,; Morris, Marcia A.,; Morson, Gary Saul,; Popkin, Cathy,; Reyfman, Irina,; Stanton, Rebecca,; Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Catharine,; Todd, William Mills,; Workman, Nancy,
• HerausgeberIn: Martinsen, Deborah A.,; Popkin, Cathy,; Reyfman, Irina,
• Author: Belknap
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Ars Rossica
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Text and Teacher. The Teacher and the Text: The Pragmatic Sleuth in the Classroom -- 2. Text and Context I. Teaching Contexts -- 3. Text, then Theory. Theorizing vs. Teaching Literary Theory: What Is to Be Done with Crime and Punishment? -- 4. Text and Language. Literature in the Original for the Defective Detective, or Teaching Suspect Grammar to Unsuspecting Students -- 5. Text and Epigraph. “The Way of the Grain”: Teaching The Brothers Karamazov through the Novel’s Epigraph -- 6. Text and Biblical Text. Teaching Raskolnikov’s Dream: Regarding the Pain of Others in the Classroom -- 7. Text Plus Text. Chekhov’s “In Exile” and “The Student”: Text/Countertext as Strategy -- 8. Text Plus Text Plus Text. Three Deaths: A Boy, a Goose, and an Infant -- 9. Text and Reader I. Turgenev’s Preoccupations -- 10. Texts with Blanks. This Page Left Intentionally Blank: Absences in Anna Karenina -- 11. Text and Reader II. Getting Away with Murder: Teaching Crime and Punishment -- 12. Text and Philosophy. Notes from a Cave: Teaching Notes from Underground in a Philosophy Class -- 13. Text and Context II. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Revisited, Plus a Few Thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh -- 14. Text and Printing. The Birth of a Novel from the Work of Journalism: Teaching Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Golovlyovs -- 15. Text and History. An Inconvenient Footnote: Lermontov’s “Bela” and the Circassian Expulsion -- 16. Text in Syllabus I. Teaching “Literature and Empire”: The Case for Anna Karenina -- 17. Text in Syllabus II. Reading for the Self: Unwrapping the Nested Autobiographies in Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time -- 18. Text and Genre. Unsettling Students: Road Rage and the Quest for Fixity in Dead Souls -- 19. Text, Genre, and Morality I. Searching for Freedom in Eugene Onegin -- 20. Text, Genre, and Morality II. Examining Lensky’s Body: Forensic Pedagogy -- 21. Text and Performance. The Power of Pedagogy: Dispelling the Darkness in Tolstoy’s Drama -- 22. Unperformable Text. “Visible Only in Very Clear Weather”: Teaching Chekhov’s Second Acts -- Index