Ksana Blank
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
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248 East Pyne |
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by appointment |
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609-258-4733 |
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kblank@princeton.edu |
| education: |
PhD in Russian Literature (Columbia University, 1997);
BA in French Literature (St. Petersburg State University, 1979)
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profile: My research interests include Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Russian religious thought, twentieth-century Russian prose, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. I am also interested in the history of the Russian literary language.
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current project: I just finished a book Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin.
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courses: Undergraduate courses taught:
Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation (3rd year Russian)
Advanced Russian Reading, Composition, and Conversation (4th year Russian)
The Russian Short Story
Russian for Heritage Speakers
Graduate courses taught:
19th Century Novelists (graduate seminar on Tolstoy)
Russian Stylistics
Graduate courses team-taught with Caryl Emerson:
Tolstoy
Russian Approaches to Literature: Formalists, Bakhtin, Cultural Semiotics
Evolution of Russian Prose
Readings in Russian Spiritual Philosophy
Teaching at the Russian Summer School in St. Petersburg ("Princeton-in-Petersburg")
Dostoevsky Module
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"Иеротопия Достоевского и Толстого" ["Hierotopy of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy"].
Hierotopiia: sravnitel'nye issledovaniia sakral’nykh prostranstv. Ed. Alexey Lidov.Moscow: Indrik, 2009, 323-340.
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"The Rabbit and the Duck: Antinomic Unity in Dostoevskij, the Russian Religious Tradition, and Mikhail Bakhtin."
in Studies in East European Thought (a thematic issue devoted to "Dostoevskij's Significance for Philosophy and Theology"). Vol. 50, No. 1 (2007).
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"Путем зерна: мотив элевсинских мистерий в романе 'Братья Карамазовы'". ["'By Way of a Grain': the Motif of Eleusinian Mysteries in The Brothers Karamazov"].
in Word, Music, History: A Festschrift for Caryl Emerson. Eds. Lazar Fleishman, Gabriella Safran, and Michael Wachtel. Stanford Slavic Studies, 2005. 416-432.
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"В поисках иконичности: Толстой и Малевич". ["In Search of Iconicity: Tolstoy and Malevich."]
in Russkaia literatura. St. Petersburg: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Institut russkoi literatury. No. 1 (2004): 33-42.
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"Мышкин и Обломов". ["Myshkin and Oblomov."]
Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo "Idiot": Sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia/ Ed. T. Kasatkina. Moscow: 2000. 472-481.
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"Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and the Music of Igor Stravinsky."
in Slavonica. Vol. 6, No. 2 (2000): 28-43.
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"Петербург, Крым и миф вечного возвращения: 'Машенька' и 'Евгений Онегин'". ["Petersburg, Crimea, and the Myth of the Eternal Return: Mary and Eugene Onegin."]
in Pushkin i Nabokov: materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii. St. Petersburg: Dorn, 1999. 139-145.
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"На рассвете шестнадцатого числа весеннего месяца нисана: апофатизм романа 'Мастер и Маргарита'". ["In the Morning on the Sixteenth of the Spring Month of Nisan: Apophatism in The Master and Margarita."]
in Mikhail Bulgakov na iskhode XX veka: materialy vos'mykh mezhdunarodnykh Bulgakovskikh chtenii v S.-Peterburge. Biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskogo Bulgakovskogo Obshchestva. Series. Vol. 2. Eds. A.A. Ninov, A.A. Grubin and A.S. Burmistrov. St. Petersburg: Russian Institute of the History of Arts, 1999. 134-44.
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"О 'Лолите' Набокова". ["On Nabokov's Lolita."]
in Nabokovskii Vestnik. Peterburgskie Chteniia. Ed. V. Stark. Sankt–Peterburgskii muzei V.V. Nabokova/"Dorn", Vyp. 1. (1998): 101–109.
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"Lev Tolstoy's Suprematist Icon–Painting."
in Elementa: Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics. Vol. 2, No. 1 (1995): 67-81.
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"По заколдованным местам Гоголя". ["Visiting Gogol's Bewitched Places."]
in Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. No. 11 (1995): 177-180.
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