https://mla.hcommons.org/members/katiabowers/activity/ Activity feed for Katherine Bowers. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:12:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 588ad597afa726cea73e040ab3954eca https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1905903/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:24:05 -0500 0 7ac9eb3d2fbe4b2e24bef654317db2d1 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1862128/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:32:12 -0400 0 1f1e38335e1b1b741b7c780af0443353 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861504/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:09:56 -0400 0 a71c3ab02bacb53f1a8f6d66d8a0b8cd https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853657/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:06:22 -0400 0 9ec9054dcc967e61bf826799a6de23fd https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843673/ Thu, 04 May 2023 18:46:50 -0400 0 e1e21f524134cedb0deffb85e596ca9d https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789138/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:56:53 -0400 0 3c18ed4b00f9cea212fbf459ab6daf19 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783043/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:48:28 -0400 This chapter gives an overview of several different projects grounded in digital media approaches or digital humanities methodologies that I assign my students while we are reading Dostoevsky’s novels. In particular, Crime and Punishment is rich for this kind of approach. Projects include a digital mapping project using software like S…[Read more]

]]> 0 51108b72a4fa95782f6017078a406ff2 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782939/ Mon, 30 May 2022 17:18:40 -0400 0 818dfe3d30f5c5f7239015b3356fb6f9 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782807/ Fri, 27 May 2022 18:49:31 -0400 This chapter argues that the concept of the gothic corpse can be productively used to analyze Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (1869) through the deployment of two specific imagined corpses in the novel: “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” by Hans Holbein the Younger and the murderer’s victim buried under the floorboards of Rogozhin’s house. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb2fc8763fc23ba9b9ec07a103e39b96 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782806/ Fri, 27 May 2022 18:35:23 -0400 This is the introduction to the volume, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity, published in 2021 by University of Toronto Press. Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky’s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer’s art – specifically the tension between experience and formal representation – as its central theme. While m…[Read more]

]]> 0 bedef43f5ec3e6ba5711eb5ee5353997 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782802/ Fri, 27 May 2022 18:15:27 -0400 Ann Radcliffe’s novels were extremely popular in early nineteenth-century Russia. Publication of her work in Russian translation propelled the so-called gothic wave of 1800-10. Yet, many of the works Radcliffe was known for in Russia were not written by her; rather, they were works by others that were attributed to Radcliffe. This article t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e694a7c9af35604de5ec052137fa10e https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1782799/ Fri, 27 May 2022 17:55:51 -0400 0 6630305d6f8a6695f244ddade2caea20 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740336/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:33:13 -0400 0 13280de670613ba364b2173fc92261a6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728324/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:53:59 -0500 0 8060866e57c4250ecb06b0073a87e898 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1720675/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:49:57 -0500 0 30ab12db241a533f0548568de534f868 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715572/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 04:10:31 -0500 0 00681dabb46869690b6738a94aa2e61a https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715520/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:18:46 -0500 0 17ab0461906c879988059e6a1dfb3d43 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715519/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:16:39 -0500 This chapter presents a case study of the gothic novel reader and the way notions about gothic novels and their readers developed in Russia. The chapter takes a comparative approach, drawing on reviews and reader accounts from both England and Russia, to demonstrate how similar attitudes in both countries were despite Russia’s later gothic wave.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d55d18aa447f73b5f93da8688f12d2e9 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714030/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:20:02 -0400 0 c2515a4bc78958399924d2aaddba242d https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708574/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:42:00 -0400 0 8c6305a8f2069a274439b2facaa332fa https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1694343/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 06:06:17 -0400 0 ab20f7144c1c03936976fba7a3a58a20 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1689440/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:33:02 -0400 This article examines the epilogue of Dostoevskii’s novel Crime and Punishment from the perspective of genre and generic expectation. Considering two generic plots that appear in the novel, the detective plot and the redemption narrative, the author argues that the imagined reader’s generic expectation is both satisfied and thwarted in each cas…[Read more]

]]> 0 40ef4d1bc5782e43f79ee9a291fe6aec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689435/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:26:20 -0400 0 554ed3d834ed4925fb50f4a70c6db08a https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1684601/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:17:23 -0400 0 77075ca789536d460a54000888a488c5 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673268/ Sun, 22 Dec 2019 14:42:22 -0500 0 c0ddb59c6988bc27770014f14e068868 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673104/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:32:34 -0500 This short chapter discusses Dostoevskii’s incorporation of the Ol’ga Umetskaia’s case into The Idiot.

]]> 0 4528a5ec50d7f3506d248b2f6b7cc9cc https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666500/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:37:16 -0400 0 e69c58be4dd59c71bd9748a8e7049988 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665598/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:33:17 -0400 0 e366cdb6e98adb29f7c0314090d46468 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660021/ Sat, 10 Aug 2019 07:16:18 -0400 0 4663c6b984b25e4cdebb5aa9fd5f1591 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640440/ Fri, 17 May 2019 20:41:25 -0400 0 a33dc469185e1b2ad97bc80e3cf0637e https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623172/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:51:28 -0500 0 e488da99625957f7387f3a721a5016b1 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617792/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:46:03 -0400 This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e488da99625957f7387f3a721a5016b1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617791/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:46:03 -0400 This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 1eef7ca24edbb3193256e50eefdacae2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617790/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:45:56 -0400 This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 06066e2c746060db78e6d0215728328c https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617789/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:45:37 -0400 This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 06066e2c746060db78e6d0215728328c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617788/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:45:37 -0400 This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 13646606aa8cd770e6fc28cbc295bec4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617787/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:45:26 -0400 This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 8be5ad386700c442b20fa67cb3f878b4 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617747/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 04:51:45 -0400 This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4907eae05db4a5d8a9ab17f04af0592 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617746/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 04:46:20 -0400 This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist’s perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150” by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 97eebca63f8d4036e6294654701f9a1d https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1616669/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:51:06 -0400 0 ab15ac08119e8a925cb27466ce7a1820 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1613527/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 23:43:27 -0400 0 c1c5067531cbec7d983d3b4b35b2916c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1612793/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:37:58 -0400 0 7caac204bba6f11c6977321594898f99 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1612406/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:43:59 -0400 0 eae17af644ff43d8d8e934e89a547f45 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608779/ Mon, 21 May 2018 00:05:48 -0400 This article considers a unified polar Gothic as a way of examining texts set in Arctic and Antarctic space. Through analysis of Coleridge’s’ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket , the author creates a framework for understanding polar Gothic, which includes liminal…[Read more]

]]> 0 cabeecdf667bb47dacc268a50624e436 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608778/ Sun, 20 May 2018 23:53:44 -0400 This article explores the image of the khalat, or dressing gown, in and around Petr Viazemskii’s 1817 poem “Proshchanie s khalatom” (Farewell to My Dressing Gown). As the poem circulated during the period between its creation and printing, its central image—the khalat—became enshrined as a symbol for early nineteenth-century literary culture…[Read more]

]]> 0 95e57c2174188c564746a08054f59dae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608777/ Sun, 20 May 2018 23:19:03 -0400 This book chapter examines the Gothic trope of the “fall of the house” across the Russian long nineteenth-century canon, focusing on Aksakov’s A Family Chronicle, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Family Golovlyov, and Bunin’s Dry Valley.

]]> 0 490dc4f2cc732ae46014bd78f0f701ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608776/ Sun, 20 May 2018 22:42:09 -0400 This chapter examines nineteenth-century Russian writers who drew on the Gothic in order to explore the experience of death, existential terror, and the possibility of an afterlife within the bounds of literary realism. In Turgenev’s story ‘Bezhin Meadow’ and Chekhov’s sketch ‘A Dead Body’, Gothic language and imagery create a narrative f…[Read more]

]]> 0 33a4edff1f0876ee68a2617f11d34c69 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608775/ Sun, 20 May 2018 22:10:05 -0400 This article reads Chekhov’s play Three Sisters as a response to Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler through an examination of the plays’ possible intertextual relationship. The author discusses the historical context of both plays as well as their textology and staging directions.

]]> 0 cb256cdd0b8d08ad56724c205842db5d https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608078/ Tue, 08 May 2018 21:24:58 -0400 0 4087df14d6c4540099d535c8958f4bd8 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607975/ Tue, 08 May 2018 03:45:31 -0400 This is an archive of the Twitter feed @YakovGolyadkin, which tweeted Dostoevsky’s novel The Double from its protagonist’s perspective in November 2015.

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