RUSS-463 Dostoevsky's Taboos

Professor Meerson

This course teaches us how Dostoevsky encodes unshakable values in omissions--but not just any kind of omissions. Rather, he develops a powerful narrative and structural technique which treats what matters most as unmentionable. This allows him to bring forth and be tolerant towards a multitude of voices and move the forbidden from the realm of external law to that of the inner voice of one's conscience. The course explores The Notes from the House of the Dead, the four great "murder novels" (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons/The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov), and either The Adolescent or the shorter novella The Eternal Husband. Conducted in English. (Not offered 2004-05)

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• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
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• 2013-2014 Fall and Spring

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