The North American Dostoevsky Society: Interdisciplinary Readings

Session Submission Type: Panel

Affiliate Organization: North American Dostoevsky Society

Brief Description

This is the annual ASEEES panel sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society. This year’s papers each have an interdisciplinary element, as they touch on therapeutic jurisprudence, economic criticism, and ancient philosophy.

Sub Unit

• Literature: Russian and Eurasian

Chair

• Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis U

Papers

• Dostoevsky as Juvenile Justice Advocate and Progenitor of Therapeutic Jurisprudence - Amy D. Ronner, St. Thomas U

• Early Experiments in Narrative Value: 'Poor People,' or Poor Readers? - Jonathan Paine, U of Oxford (UK)

• Classicism and Golyadkin’s Crisis of Value - Brian Arthur Armstrong, Augusta U

Discussant

• William Mills Todd, III, Harvard U