Preliminary Program for "Critical Exchanges"

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Please find below the preliminary program for the upcoming conference
"Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia."

Best,
James Driscoll


Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia
Northwestern University

Friday, May 7, 2004

Panel:                  Twentieth-Century Exchanges
Chair:                  Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern)
Discussant:             Gregory Freidin (Stanford)

'The Gold of Genuine Poetry': Epistolary Exchange and the Value of Peasant
Words in the Kliuev-Blok Correspondence  (J. Alexander Ogden, University of
South Carolina)

The Golden Calf and the Matter of Form  (Lida Oukaderova, University of Texas)

Economy of Diversions and Crimes of Substitution: Detektivy as
Manuals  (Serguei Oushakine, Columbia)


Saturday May 8, 2004

Panel:                  Theory and Economic Criticism
Chair:                  Wendy Espeland (Northwestern)
Discussant:             Caryl Emerson (Princeton)

Economics vs. the Novel (Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern)

Econoclasm: Social Scenarios and Semiotic Forms of the Quest for
Impecunious Society  (Kirill Postoutenko, University of Southern California)

Evaluation in Aesthetics and Economy: A Heuristic Approach to Evaluative
Practices  (Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth)

Panel:                  Nineteenth-Century Exchanges (Part One)
Chair:                  Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern)
Discussant:             Esther Kingston-Mann (University of Massachusetts)

Nadson's Millions: Stikhomaniia, Poetry Markets, and the Commercialization
of the Intelligentsia Illness Chic  (Robert Wessling, Stanford)

Dostoevsky's 'Ode to Joy': Forgiveness and Giving in The Brothers
Karamazov  (Svetlana Rukhelman, Harvard)

The Value of Happiness: An Approach to the Economy of Komu na Rusi Zhit'
Khorosho  (Mikhail Makeev, Moscow State)

Panel:                  Nineteenth-Century Exchanges (Part Two)
Chair:                  Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern)
Discussant:             William Mills Todd III (Harvard)

Disraeli and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economies of Salvation  (Susan
McReynolds-Oddo, Northwestern)

Worlds Juxtaposed:  The Dream Economy of Goncharov's Oblomov  (James
Driscoll, Harvard)

Sweet Commerce and Dead Souls: Gogol's Hidden Polemic with European
'Progress'  (Russell Scott Valentino, University of Iowa)

Theory-vs.-Praxis, or the Virtual Economy in M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's
Gospoda Golovlyovy  (Ewa Wampusyc, University of Michigan)


4:30PM          Keynote Address by Mark Osteen (Loyola College Maryland)


Papers submitted in absentia:

State service, book market and literary reputation: Goncharov's conflictive
'habitus'" (Ulrich Schmid, University of Bern)

The Hunger City: Gorod Golod  (Irina Sandomirskaja, University College of
South Stockholm, Sweden)

Literary translation in Russia: changes in situation  (Vadim Mikhailin,
Saratov State University)

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