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Starry Skies, Awful Hieroglyphs, and Eternal Silence: Philosophical Lyricism in Anna Karenina

245 East Pyne 245 East Pyne, Princeton

Professor Knapp is a scholar and professor of 19th and 20th-century Russian literature. Her specialties include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, early 20th-century Russian poetry, literature and science; and literature and religion. Among her books are The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics; and Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Plots.

Book Talk: Ornamentalism

Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, Princeton

Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture.

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