{"product_id":"turned-inside-out-steven-shankman-9780810134928","title":"Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison","description":"In \u003ci\u003eTurned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These persecuted writers--Shankman argues that Dostoevsky's and Levinas's experiences of incarceration were formative--describe ethical obligation as an experience of being turned inside out by the face-to-face encounter. Shankman relates this experience of being turned inside out to the very significance of the word \"God,\" to Dostoevsky's tormented struggles with religious faith, to Vasily Grossman's understanding of his Jewishness in his great novel \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, and to the interpersonal encounters the author has witnessed reading these texts with his students in the prison environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurned Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to readers with interests in the classic novels of Russian literature, in prisons and pedagogy, or in Levinas and phenomenology. At a time when the humanities are struggling to justify the centrality of their mission in today's colleges and universities, Steven Shankman by example makes an undeniably powerful case for the transformative power of reading great texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Shankman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810134926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810134928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017","brand":"Steven Shankman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065163198719,"sku":"9780810134928","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_629a2e64-26dd-4473-bd15-4ceca3669f8b.jpg?v=1768673407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/turned-inside-out-steven-shankman-9780810134928","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}