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SUMMARY:A Gothic Realism? Rereading the Classic Russian Novel - Katherine 
 Bowers\, Slavonic Studies
DTSTART:20121113T131000Z
DTEND:20121113T140000Z
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Bowers’s research examines how two seemingly oppos
 ed literary modes – the Gothic and Realism – combine in unexpectedly p
 roductive ways in nineteenth-century Russian fiction.  In this talk\, she 
 explores how writers such as Turgenev\, Dostoevsky\, and Chekhov used Goth
 ic devices to create the subtle masterpieces for which they are best known
 . What is the Gothic doing in these works?  And how does its presence chan
 ge the way we read Russian fiction?  Bowers argues that examining how cano
 nical writers make use of a popular genre\, the Gothic\, leads not only to
  fresh readings of familiar texts\, but also causes us to question existin
 g assumptions about “high” and “low” fiction and how they interact
  with one another.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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