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The teacher and the text: the pragmatic sleuth in the classroom / Robin Feuer Miller -- Teaching contexts / Robert L. Belknap -- Theorizing vs. teaching literary theory : what is to be done with Crime and Punishment? / Olga Meerson -- Literature in the original for the defective detective, or teaching suspect grammar to unsuspecting students / Irina Reyfman -- "The way of the grain" : teaching The Brothers Karamazov through novel's epigraph / Ksana Blank -- Teaching Raskolnikov's dream : regarding the pain of others in the classroom / Liza Knapp -- Chekhov's "In exile" and "The student" : text/countertext as strategy / Andrew R. Durkin -- Three deaths : a boy, a goose, and an infant / Robert Louis Jackson -- Turgenev's preoccupations / Nicholas Dames -- This page intentionally blank : absences in Anna Karenina / Gary Saul Morson -- Getting away with murder : teaching Crime and Punishment / Deborah A. Martinsen -- Notes from a cave : teaching Notes from Underground in a philosophy course / Nancy Workman -- Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground revisited, plus a few thoughts about Winnie-the-Pooh / Ellen Chances -- The birth of a novel from the work of journalism : teaching Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlevs / William Mills Todd III -- An inconvenient footnote : Lermontov's "Bela" and the circassian expulsion / Jefferson J. A. Gatrall -- Teaching "Literature and Empire" : the case for Anna Karenina / Cathy Popkin -- Reading for the self : unwrapping the nested autobiographies in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time / Rebecca Stanton -- Unsettling students : road rage and the quest for fixity in Dead Souls / Marcia A. Morris -- Searching for freedom in Eugene Onegin / Svetlana Grenier -- Examining Lensky's body : forensic pedagogy / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- The power of pedagogy : dispelling the darkness in Tolstoy's Drama / Maude Meisel -- "Visible only in very clear weather" : teaching Chekhov's second acts / Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour.