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Political animal : representing dogs in modern Russian culture /
"Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems and cultural productions, this book shows that the dog incorporates various often-paradoxical meanings - moral, social and philosophical. This study contributes to the unfolding cultural history of human-animal r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston [Massachusetts] :
Brill Rodopi,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ;
v. 59. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Vladimir Durov's dog story: A thematic capsule; Introduction; Dog stories; How to approach the dog stories in Russian culture; Examining dog stories; Chapter structure; PART ONE: EXPLORING CRUELTY, INJUSTICE, AND THE SHIFTING HIERARCHIES BETWEEN DOGS AND HUMANS; Chapter 1. When dogs were more expensive than people; The rich man's dogs and the poor man's honour: Alexander Pushkin's 'Dubrovskii'; Dostoevsky's sadistic landlords, villainous muzhiks, and animal and serf abuse in The Brothers Karamazov.
- A populist writer on serfdom and the dog breastfeeding plot: Vladimir Korolenko's 'On a Cloudy Day'The phantasmagorical world of dogs, dog killers and serf women in Velimir Khlebnikov's 'The Night before the Soviets'; Chapter 2. 'The Children's Hour': Cruelty to dogs; The functions of dogs vis-à-vis children in The Brothers Karamazov; Choosing the life of abuse: Chekhov's 'Kashtanka' ('The Little Chestnut'); Alexander Kuprin: girl dreams of an elephant, a good boy and a bad boy, and the dog in 'The White Poodle'; What do the real 'children's hour' dog stories teach us?
- Chapter 3. Degradation narratives: Dogs and humans in social and moral transformationDegradation or elevation? Transformation into a dog language-reading madman: Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman; The picaresque tradition and social transformation: Petr Furman's Transformation of a dog; Animal commune after the October Revolution: Boris Pilnyak's 'A Dog's Life: The Vicissitudes of Destiny'; Times of famine
- from socio-economic transformation to dog-eating degradation: A Dog's Destiny; Moral degradation in Soviet times: dog meat for dogs in the Leningrad siege.
- PART TWO: EXPLORING EMOTIONAL NEEDS: DOGS AND THEIRUNDERDOG PARTNERSChapter 4. The fate of dogs in partnerships with the marginalised Other; Ivan Turgenev's dogs and the politics of sexual transgression; Alexander Kuprin's racialised dogs and scapegoats in 'Gambrinus'; White companion dogs and their fair ladies: Zamiatin and Chekhov; Chapter 5. Dogs and inmates in prison and Gulags: Writing and re-writing the humanistic canon; Ethnographic take on dogs in prison: Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead; Varlam Shalamov's prison 'Bitch Tamara'
- A guard's story: Sergei Dovlatov's dog eatersPART THREE: DOGS IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY; Chapter 6. Dogs and their masters in police and prison service: 1960s-1980s; Dogs and socialism with a human face: 'Mukhtar' by Izrail' Metter; Dogs and socialism without a human face: Georgii Vladimov's Faithful Ruslan: the story of a guard dog; Prison guard dogs as nobody's dogs in Sergei Dovlatov's The Zone: Notes of a Prison Camp Guard; Chapter 7. The cult of the border guard dogs; Nikita Karatsupa and the cult of the border guard dogs.