What is it about?
Caryl Emerson wrote her review of my book for Comparative Literature Studies--and when it was twice too long (a very familiar problem for me as well), she convinced them to turn it into a forum. I responded to her; she responded to me.
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Why is it important?
This forum adds depth and complexity to the book's argument--where in fact I engage Emerson's take on Tolstoy, Shklovsky, and Bakhtin, but not deeply or complexly enough.
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A wonderful experience for me, being read so sensitively and sympathetically by the great translator and scholar of Bakhtin and Russian classics.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Estrangement, Infection, Laughter, Somatics, Tolstoy: A Forum with Caryl Emerson and Douglas Robinson, Comparative Literature Studies, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.1353/cls.2010.0001.
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