Passion, humiliation, revenge : hatred in man-woman relationships in the 19th and 20th century Russian novel / / Rina Lapidus.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 171 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of attitudes towards female characters in Russian literature : an historical overview
  • Spiritual and physical murder between man and woman : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
  • Woman as sexual predator in Russian literary tradition : Tolstoy, Zoschenko and Trifonov
  • Woman's infidelity as the cause for man's devastation : Tolstoy, Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and Chekhov
  • Anxiety about the strong woman : Turgenev, Leskov, and Bulgakov
  • Surrogate for man-woman relations in post-war Soviet literature : Vasilyiev, Grossman, and Rasputin
  • The eunuch as hero in late-Soviet and Perestroika literature : Dovlatov, Nagibin, and Polyakov
  • Man as an object in literature by women : Shcherbakova, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and Grekova
  • Conclusion : sex as an animal act beyond comprehension.