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

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

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"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 real...

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Main Author: Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Virtue in literature.
Russian fiction.
Masculinity in literature.
Commerce in literature.
Virtues in literature.
Roman russe > Themes, motifs.
Vertus dans la litterature.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Commerce dans la litterature.
Roman russe > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman russe > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Russian fiction > Themes, motives.
Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Russian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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