Vasily Rozanov and the Body of Russian Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0893573701 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Russian Critic Newly Important a Century After His Death Susan Southworth From love to hatred or hatred to love, Vasily Rozanov's impassioned literary criticism seemed never to catch a breath. Dipping his pen in poison ink, he referred to satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchredrin as a wolf and vampire who was "extremely destructive because [he] taught Russiansto treat their country with cynicism". Though he described literature as rubbish, he saw it as powerful, the paramount influence on modern society and politics.The duality of Rozanov's extremes is particularly notable in his f
a significant and important contribution to Rozanov studies. --Ruth Coates, Slavonic & East European Review . Mondry's subject is Rozanov's complex and mutable relationship with 19th- century Russian literature and its creators, which she expertly explores through the Rozanovian matrix of sex, race and religion in the context of his own psychological complexes, the development of his thought, contemporary discourse on sexual pathology in its relation to raceand art, and key historical events, notably the trial of the Jewish factory worker Menahem Mendel Beilis for the ritual murder of a Christian child (1911 13) and the Russian Revolution. C
Henrietta Mondry's monograph is the first interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the most original and controversial turn-of-the-century Russian writer and thinker, Vasily Rozanov. The book focuses on the constructs of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality which Rozanov used to explicate the political, social, and artistic narratives of the great five of Russian literature: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fedor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. As such, he can be viewed as a R