The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel /

"With chapters on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well as Pasternak and Nabokov, The Woman in the Window argues that Russian authors worked through this question via their depictions of "mixed-up men." Such characters, according to Valentino, reveal that in a world where social reality and persona...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962- (Údar)
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Sraith:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Clibeanna: Cuir clib leis
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue
  • Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window
  • The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls
  • In search of the virtuous man : minor readings
  • Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L
  • Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.