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Auteur(s) : Valentino, Russell Scott (1962-....)
Titre(s) : The woman in the window [Texte imprimé] : commerce, consensual fantasy, and the quest for masculine virtue in the Russian novel / Russell Scott Valentino
Publication : Columbus : The Ohio State university press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : xiii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index
In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine
Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights
into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting
economic context in modern Russia. This study illustrates how the traditional virtue
ethic, grounded in property-based conceptions of masculine heroism, was eventually
displaced by a new commercial ethic that rested upon consensual fantasy. The new economic
world destabilized traditional Russian notions of virtue and posed a central question
that Russian authors have struggled to answer since the early nineteenth century:
How could a self-interested commercial man be incorporated into the Russian context
as a socially valuable masculine character. -- from back cover
Sujet(s) : Masculinité -- Dans la littérature
Vertus -- Dans la littérature
Roman russe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814212677. - ISBN 0814212670 (cloth). - ISBN 9780814293713. - ISBN 0814293719
(e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43905775g
Notice n° :
FRBNF43905775
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