""This is a stimulating book that should provoke rethinking many common assumptions about literary history. It offers both a coherent theoretical framework and many fresh insights into particular work
Shankman, UNESCO professor in Transcultural studies at the University of Oregon, examines the popular catch phrase "the Other" through the lens of the writings of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Unlike
In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to
In Turned Inside Out: Reading the Russian Novel in Prison, Steven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to
Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other." Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas’s noti
The field of Sino-Hellenic studies attempts to link the ancient culture of China with that of Greece. Editors Shankman (arts and sciences, U. of Oregon) and Durrant (Chinese, U of Oregon) acknowledge
