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2005: Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer

Dostoevsky Dismembered: Decentering a Great Writer

April 15, 2005

PROGRAM

3401 Walnut Street, Max Kade Center
Room 329A
(34th and Walnut – above Starbucks)

10:00 - 10:15 Opening remarks: Associate Dean Joe Farrell

10:15 - 12:00 Panel I: Dissections and Interruptions

Chair: Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania

Liza Knapp, Columbia University, “The Adolescent: Dismembering the Novel of Adultery”

William Todd, Harvard University, “Mediocrity and Narrration in Dostoevsky's Idiot”

Claudia Verhoven, University of California, Los Angeles, “Interrupting the Zeitgeist: The Cases of Raskolnikov and Karakozov”

Discussant: Amelia Glaser, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania

1:00 - 2:45 Panel II: Truths and Doubts

Chair: Vlad Todorov, University of Pennsylvania

Steven Cassedy, University of California, San Diego, “Dostoevsky Didn’t Really Believe in Anything”

Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania, “Where Bobok Is Buried: Theosophical Roots of Dostoevsky’ s “Fantastic Realism”

Ilya Kliger, Yale University, “Truth Discourse in Crime and Punishment”

Discussant: Anne Eakin Moss, Johns Hopkins University

3:00 - 4:45 Panel III: Interventions and Transpositions

Chair: Julia Vaingurt, University of Pennsylvania

Sharon Allen, Penn Humanities Forum, “Re-membering Romance in Dostoevsky's and Machado de Assis's 'Underground Narratives'

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, “In Search of the Dialogic Novel: Dostoevsky versus Tolstoy”

Monica Popescu, University of Pennsylvania, “What's Dostoevsky Got to Do With It? Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and the Logic of Late Post-Colonialism”

Discussant: Timothy Harte, Bryn Mawr College

4:45 - 6:00 Reception