Passion, humiliation, revenge
Subtitle: hatred in man-woman relationships in the 19th and 20th century Russian novel
By: Rina Lapidus with Jonathan Chipman.
Contributors: Chipman, Jonathan.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780739127476
Subjects: Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Man-woman relationships in literature; Sex in literature; Revenge in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of attitudes towards women in Russian literature; title: Spiritual and physical murder between man and woman : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov; title: Woman as sexual predator : Tolstoy, Zoschenko and Trifonov; title: Woman's infidelity as the cause for man's devastation : Tolstoy v. Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and Chekhov; title: Anxiety about the strong woman : Turgenev, Leskov, Bulgakov; title: Surrogate for man-woman relations in post-war Soviet literature : Vasilyiev, Grossman, and Rasputin; title: Eunuch as hero in late-Soviet and Perestroika literature : Dovlatov, Nagibin, and Polyakov; title: Man as an object in literature by women : Shcherbakova, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and Grekova; title: Conclusion : sex as an animal act beyond comprehension.