Mapping Gogol: Methodology
As part of our work to expand Mapping St Petersburg and develop the idea of experimenting with literary cartography, we have produced two maps visualizing the spatial arrangement of Gogol’s Peterburg...
View ArticleBASEES 2012 highlights
I was quite busy with committee business during the BASEES conference, but did manage to attend a few panels, and want to pick out a few highlights from what everyone I spoke to agreed was a very...
View ArticleDostoevsky and the Gulag
I’ve started work on a paper on the depiction of criminals in labour camp writing for a workshop later this summer, and as Dostoevsky is one of my starting points, this has led me to revisit the...
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Russian thought lecture 4: Nihilism and the birth of Russian radicalism: from...
Readings: Nikolai Chernyshevsky, extracts from “The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy” (1860); Dmitry Pisarev, “The Realists” (1864) and “The Thinking Proletariat” (1865) We’re now moving away...
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Russian Thought lecture 7: Tolstoy: from Christian love to Christian anarchism
Readings: L. N. Tolstoy, “A Confession” (1879), “The Law of Violence and the Law of Love” (1908), “Postface to The Kreutzer Sonata” (1889) Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 We now move onto Lev...
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Russian thought lecture 10: Utopias in Russian culture: of palaces and...
Reading: Dostoevsky, “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (1877) The Crystal Palace in Sydenham So we come to the end of this lecture series, and a slightly different focus than previously, as theoretical works...
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Top ten undead in Russian literature
“The dead are people too.” Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the influence on nineteenth-century Russian literature of romantic and gothic sensibilities, and of...
View ArticleNew publications: the spatial turn
I have a couple of recent publications to announce. The first is on Shalamov: ‘Mapping Space as Factography: Human Traces and Negated Genres in Varlam Shalamov’s Kolymskie rasskazy,’ Slavonica, 19.1...
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“Russians” in Lewes
Last weekend I visited Lewes to give a lecture on Crime and Punishment at the Lewes Little Theatre, ahead of their forthcoming production of the novel, which opens on 12 October. I had a wonderful...
View ArticleRaskolnikov on Twitter
For the last few days on Twitter @RodionTweets has been tweeting Crime and Punishment in real time from Raskolnikov’s perspective. A collaborative project developed by a group of North-American and...
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