"Bookishness" and "Literacy" in Douglass and Dostoevsky

 

Friday, February 26, 12-2 p.m. in 50-51A

The readings are available at the ISH Colloquium website or you can click here to download the PDF file.

The reading includes two excerpts from Nancy Ruttenburg's most recent monograph, Dostoevsky's Democracy (Princeton UP, 2008):

1. the background reading, chapter 5 (The Flesh of the Political), pp. 140-169, and

2. the principal reading, pp. 170-176, a section of the Conclusion (Carmen Horrendum).

In addition, Professor Ruttenburg appended a copy of her Guggenheim Proposal (successful) that traces the trajectory of her continuing research project (to download, click here).

 

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP Monica Moore.