| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 0169-0175 ; Volume 59 |
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Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 59.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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' |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 relations across cultures."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dogs -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Dogs in literature.
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Russian literature -- History and criticism
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Dog breeds.
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Puppies.
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Dogs -- history
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Russian literature
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Dogs -- Social aspects
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Dogs in literature
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Dog breeds
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Dogs
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Puppies
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Russia (Federation)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9401211841 |
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1336099089 |
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9781336099081 |
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9789401211840 |
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9042039027 |
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9789042039025 |
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