ISBN:
0299224309
,
9780299224301
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 324 S
,
Ill
Year of publication:
2007
DDC:
891.709/3552
Keywords:
Russian literature Themes, motives
;
Violence in literature
;
Violence History
;
Violence History
;
Russland
;
Literatur
;
Gewalt
;
Geschichte
;
Violence Russia (Federation)
;
Violence Russia (Federation)
;
History
;
Violence in literature
;
Russian literature History and criticism
;
Violence in art
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Russland
;
Sowjetunion
;
Literatur
;
Gewalt
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Times of trouble: the consciousness of violence in Russian history and culture / Marcus C. Levitt -- The scourge of god: the Mongols and violence in Russian history / Charles J. Halperin -- Violent outcomes: Mikhail Lermontov and Romanticism's insoluble problems / David Powelstock -- The spectacle of the scaffold: performance and subversion in the execution of the Decembrists / Ludmilla A. Trigos -- The invisible scaffold: execution and imagination in Vasilii Zhukovskii's works / Ilya Vinitsky -- The wounded young heart: Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova as Bildungsroman / Elena Krasnostchekova -- Violence and the word: Dostoevsky / Harriet Murav -- Nihilists and terrorists / Daniel Brower -- Violence and the legacy of "Bakuninism" in the Russian Revolution / Frank J. Goodwin -- On blood, scandal, renunciation and Russian history: Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and his son / Kevin M. F. Platt -- Alimentary violence: eating as a trope in Russian literature / Ronald LeBlanc -- Russian-Jewish writers face pogroms (1881-1917) / Brian Horowitz -- The origins of Soviet state terrorism: 1917-1921 / Anna Geifman -- The problem of revolutionary violence in Isaac Babel's stories / Victor Peppard -- State violence in the Stalin period / J. Arch Getty -- The struggle against treason: the great purges of 1936-38 in the mirror of the Oprichnina / Maureen Perrie -- A substitute for writing: representation of violence in incidents by Daniil Kharms / Mark Lipovetsky -- The sadists' club: struggling with the legacy of Stalinism in Vasilii Aksenov's The burn / Nina Efimov -- Circles of hell, circles of life: two responses to violence in Gulag memoirs / Natasha Kolchevska -- Violence in Victor Astafev's fiction / Julian D. Moss -- Death and the maiden: erasures of the feminine in the Soviet literature of the fin-de-siècle / Nadya L. Peterson -- Violence in modern Russian utopia and anti-utopia / Boris Lanin and Elena Vassileva -- The female face of violence: Russian culture and violence against women / Teresa L. Polowy -- Angry women's voices: revenge fantasies in Nina Sadur's stories / Tatyana Novikov -- Violence, madness, and the female grotesque in Nina Sadur's The South and Svetlana Vasilenko's Little fool / Elizabeth Skomp -- Chechen war memoirs and nationalist identity in contemporary Russia / Anna Brodsky.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Times of trouble: the consciousness of violence in Russian history and culture / Marcus C. Levitt -- The scourge of god: the Mongols and violence in Russian history / Charles J. Halperin -- Violent outcomes: Mikhail Lermontov and Romanticism's insoluble problems / David Powelstock -- The spectacle of the scaffold: performance and subversion in the execution of the Decembrists / Ludmilla A. Trigos -- The invisible scaffold: execution and imagination in Vasilii Zhukovskii's works / Ilya Vinitsky -- The wounded young heart: Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova as Bildungsroman / Elena Krasnostchekova -- Violence and the word: Dostoevsky / Harriet Murav -- Nihilists and terrorists / Daniel Brower -- Violence and the legacy of "Bakuninism" in the Russian Revolution / Frank J. Goodwin -- On blood, scandal, renunciation and Russian history: Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and his son / Kevin M. F. Platt -- Alimentary violence: eating as a trope in Russian literature / Ronald LeBlanc -- Russian-Jewish writers face pogroms (1881-1917) / Brian Horowitz -- The origins of Soviet state terrorism: 1917-1921 / Anna Geifman -- The problem of revolutionary violence in Isaac Babel's stories / Victor Peppard -- State violence in the Stalin period / J. Arch Getty -- The struggle against treason: the great purges of 1936-38 in the mirror of the Oprichnina / Maureen Perrie -- A substitute for writing: representation of violence in incidents by Daniil Kharms / Mark Lipovetsky -- The sadists' club: struggling with the legacy of Stalinism in Vasilii Aksenov's The burn / Nina Efimov -- Circles of hell, circles of life: two responses to violence in Gulag memoirs / Natasha Kolchevska -- Violence in Victor Astafev's fiction / Julian D. Moss -- Death and the maiden: erasures of the feminine in the Soviet literature of the fin-de-siècle / Nadya L. Peterson -- Violence in modern Russian utopia and anti-utopia / Boris Lanin and Elena Vassileva -- The female face of violence: Russian culture and violence against women / Teresa L. Polowy -- Angry women's voices: revenge fantasies in Nina Sadur's stories / Tatyana Novikov -- Violence, madness, and the female grotesque in Nina Sadur's The South and Svetlana Vasilenko's Little fool / Elizabeth Skomp -- Chechen war memoirs and nationalist identity in contemporary Russia / Anna Brodsky
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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