Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia /

Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia / / Irina Paperno.

In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centuries, philosophers and writers, journalists and scientists have attempted to endow this act with meaning. In the nineteenth century, and especially in Ru...

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Paperno, Irina,
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Paperno, Irina,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • Introduction: The Symbolic Meanings of Suicide
  • 1. Suicide and Western Science: Man's Two Bodies
  • 2. Russian Views: Church, Law, and Science
  • 3. Suicide in the Russian Press
  • 4. Suicide Notes and Diaries
  • 5. Dostoevsky's Fiction: The Metaphysics of Suicide
  • 6. Diary of a Writer: Dostoevsky and His Reader
  • 7. Portrait of a Journalist: Albert Kovner
  • Notes
  • Appendix: The Russian Texts
  • Index

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