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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Автор: Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962- (Автор)
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
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Зміст:
  • 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.