Looking for a Dostoevsky Panel for AAASS

[Emily Shaw]

Dear Alec,
I don't know if you have already found a panel yet or not, but if you haven't, I and a fellow student at Wisconsin are trying to organize a panel on late Tolstoy/late Dostoevsky--I just finished a dissertation on Tolstoy, Schopenhauer, and practical ethics, while Ben is writing his on Dostoevsky and silence.  If you are interested, I think we could find common ground on the issue of "truth" and how it is conveyed--I have written on the truth/viability of self-renunciation, while Ben is investigating the criteria of sincere communication and how it is truly conveyed.  Let me know what you think; I would be happy to do the legwork and submit the panel proposal (due tomorrow) if this sounds like an option to you.
Take care,
Emily Shaw

--- On Thu, 1/14/10, Alec Brookes <alexander.brookes at YALE.EDU> wrote:


From: Alec Brookes <alexander.brookes at YALE.EDU>
Subject: [SEELANGS] Looking for a Dostoevsky Panel for AAASS
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:20 PM


Dear Seelangers,

If anyone is still looking for a AAASS panelist, I have a paper on Brothers
Karamazov that I'd like to present. I argue in the paper for two types of
criteria for fictional truth beyond those fictional truths the narrator
provides us. One is based on agreement among a majority of the characters
and the other is based on non-empirical knowledge. If it so happens that
this would fit in with anyone's panel either on Dostoevsky or narratology
(or otherwise), I'd be greatly pleased.

Thanks,
Alec Brookes

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