Human cloning

[Valery Belyanin]

hello
the idea of double is very popular in a lot of "dark texts"
Dvojmik by Dostojevsky takes the 1st prize
"Giperboloid ingenera Garina" has a double (not sure of his origin) (Alexej
Tolstoj)
"Nos" - Gogol
mankurty may be view upon as clones (Ajtmatov "I dol'she veka dlitsa den'")
Genrih Sapgir - "Zhuzhukiny deti" (I have a file in Russian)
etc

Valeri Belianine,
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Психологическое_литературоведение
sorry that is in Russian too.

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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Katherine Bowers
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:47 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Human cloning
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> A colleague in Life Sciences and I are working on designing a course that
> deals with links between scientific research, political ideology, and
> ethics.  We are looking at issues that appear in Russian novels and films
> and how the same issues are discussed/debated in contemporary research
> circles.
>
> My colleague is very interested in doing a unit on human cloning.  We are
> looking for a Russian text or film that would be accessible to
> non-Russian-speaking freshmen to fit into this unit.  We are already using
> the two Bulgakov texts ("Fatal Eggs", "Heart of a Dog") in other units of
> course, and I have already been thinking about possibly using the film "4",
> but am afraid it may be too strange for college freshmen without much
> knowledge of Russian history/literature/culture/cinema to get their minds
> around.
>
> Let me know if you have any suggestions.  Really, any suggestions at all,
> even if not directly about human cloning (but somewhat related), will be
> helpful!  Thanks!
>
> Katia Bowers
>
> k-bowers at northwestern.edu
>
>

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