Join us on January 26 at 2:00 pm for the v irtual Sawchen Lecture Series\, featuring Barbara Henry of the University o f Washington Seattle. This talk is part of the North American Dostoevsky So ciety's Bicentennial Speaker Series.
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Title: "Road\, River\, and Book: the Russian Litera ry Underworld"
Abstract: The Russian literary descen t or katabasis takes three distinct forms: the folkloric distant journey\, the classical voyage over water\, and the Romantic “found manuscript.” Unli ke the vertically-organized underworld of western European literature\, the lateral orientation of the Russian katabasis reflects both native geograph y and a psychic ideal that levels social and economic hierarchies. This tal k looks at how Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1862) unifies this tri-partite model. Unlike the inwardly-directed\, centripetal emphase s of the European descent\, the transformations effected in the “dead house ” are centrifugal\, radiating outwards to echo the colossal changes effecte d by the 1861 Emancipation of the Serfs.
Bio: Barbar a Henry is an Associate Professor who teaches Russian and Yiddish literatur e at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She is the author of Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama (2011)\, and is completing a study of the classical katabasis in 19th-century Russian literature.
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