Preliminary Program for "Critical Exchanges"
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jsdrisc at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Mon Apr 12 19:10:11 UTC 2004
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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