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Teaching, Reasoning, and Dostoyevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov by Harvey Siegel - 1989In arguing for these points, I will be offering answers to
several questions concerning the ways texts teach, including these:
How can fiction teach? What are the pedagogical possibilities of
fiction? What sorts of lessons can be taught? How can a work of
fiction teach us contradictory lessons, as when different characters
express contradictory viewpoints? How are the lessons of fiction, or
literature more generally, different from more usual sorts of lessons?
In answering these questions, I will be utilizing Dostoyevsky's great
text to illustrate claims concerning successful fictional texts more
generallyclaims concerning the sorts of lessons they teach and the
way in which those lessons are taught.  View Full Text in PDF Format| This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 88, No. 1. |
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- Harvey Siegel
University of California, Berkeley
HARVEY SIEGEL is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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