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All posts for the month April, 2014

No worse than English prisons…

My work on nineteenth-century narratives about Russian imprisonment and exile has not only led me to read the classics that established the genre, notably Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead and Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island, but has also necessitated ploughing through many less celebrated works by both travellers and former prisoners and exiles. (See my previous post […]

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by on April 16, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sarah Young on April 16, 2014

https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/04/16/no-worse-than-english-prisons/

The Gulag fantastic?

I have just finished teaching a new cross-cultural course, Tales of the Unexpected, with my colleague Peter Zusi. A whistle-stop tour through the fantastic and supernatural from the Grimm brothers to H. P. Lovecraft, the course has been great fun, but beyond the appearance of Gogol (his Ukrainian folktale ‘Vii’) and Dostoevsky (the classic work […]

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by on April 7, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sarah Young on April 7, 2014

https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/04/07/the-gulag-fantastic/