For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. We are finishing our freshmen core text class with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, a novel that integrates some of the themes we have been studying so far this semester, including
Thank you for adding so much needed depth for your students. Apart from it being one of my “go to” novels (from a time when a novel was important work) Crime and Punishment has a remarkable resonance in the western psyche. No less than Woody Allen has wrestled with its themes twice, most successfully in Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989), which remains his masterpiece.
Thank you for adding so much needed depth for your students. Apart from it being one of my “go to” novels (from a time when a novel was important work) Crime and Punishment has a remarkable resonance in the western psyche. No less than Woody Allen has wrestled with its themes twice, most successfully in Crimes and Misdemeanours (1989), which remains his masterpiece.
If more professors approached freshman courses like you do, sir, America would have a better educated citizenry.