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CATEGORIES:Slavonic Studies
SUMMARY:Dostoevsky\, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: t
 o a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground 
 - Dr Aleksei Vdovin (HSE\, Moscow)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/117250
DESCRIPTION:It is customary to consider Dostoevsky's _Notes fr
 om Underground_ as the first text that anticipates
  his subsequent great novels in combining psycholo
 gical\, ideological\, and philosophical features w
 ith narrative experimentation. While the genesis a
 nd content of the philosophical ideas espoused by 
 the Underground Man have been studied extensively\
 , almost no research has been done on the connecti
 on of the novella with contemporaneous psychology 
 and physiology. One may wonder whether there is a 
 good reason to study these matters. What could thi
 s approach tell us about the poetics of Dostoevsky
  and the evolution of the novelistic form in ninet
 eenth-century Russia? In his talk Dr Vdovin will j
 uxtapose _Notes from Underground_ with the most pr
 ominent Russian text on physiology produced at the
  beginning of 1860s\, I. M. Sechenov’s _Reflexes o
 f the Brain_ to explain how Dostoevsky succeeded i
 n creating not only an influential philosophical t
 ext\, but also an experimental narrative that expa
 nds the capacities of psychological prose. \n\n*Al
 exey Vdovin* is Assistant Professor of Russian Lit
 erature and Deputy Dean for Research at the Nation
 al Research University – Higher School of Economic
 s (Faculty of Humanities\, Moscow). He is the auth
 or of a biography of Nikolai Dobroliubov in famous
  series _Lives of remarkable people_ (Moscow\, 201
 7)\, _Kontsept glava literatury v russkoi kritike 
 1830–1860_ (Tartu\, 2011) and co-editor of _Khrest
 omatiinye teksty: Russkaia pedagogicheskaia prakti
 ka i literaturnyi kanon XIX veka_ (Tartu\, 2013). 
 His fields of expertise are the history of Russian
  literature and culture in the Age of Realism\, Ru
 ssian literary criticism and aesthetics\, and the 
 history of concepts.
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College
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