Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison

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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. These persecuted writers--Shankman argues that Dostoevsky's and Levinas's experiences of incarceration were formative--describe ethical obligation as an experience of being turned inside out by the face-to-face...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810134918

ISBN13:9780810134911

Release Date:May 2017

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Social Science Social Sciences

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