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Irina Paperno - Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia - 9780801484254 - V9780801484254
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Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia

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Description for Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; JFC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.

In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centuries, philosophers and writers, journalists and scientists have attempted to endow this act with meaning. In the nineteenth century, and especially in Russia, suicide became the focus for discussion of such issues as the immortality of the soul, free will and determinism, the physical and the spiritual, the individual and the social. Analyzing a variety of sources—medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides—Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s–1880s, when suicide was at the center of public attention.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484254
SKU
V9780801484254
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About Irina Paperno
Irina Paperno is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of Tartu University in the former Soviet Union, she holds advanced degrees in Slavic languages and literatures and in psychology from Stanford University. She is the author of Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior.

Reviews for Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia
A comprehensive study.
Choice
A pathbreaking book.... Paperno's research is impeccable, and the information amassed is invaluable.
The Russian Review
An exciting book. In it Paperno discusses ideas about the meaning of suicide from classical times to the late nineteenth century, when Russia was said to have experienced 'a epidemic of suicides.
A. S. Byatt
The Threepenny Review
As a contribution to Doestoevskii studies, this book will be of primary importance.... Irina Paperno has written fruitful book.
The Slavonic Review
As Irina Paperno demonstrates in this fascinating look at Russian fiction, newspaper articles, suicide notes, and medical reports, the act of suicide in 19th century Russia became the source of discussions on immortality, religion, free will, and the relationship between the individual and society, among other topics.... Paperno concludes that suicide became a cultural artifact in 19th-century Russian and thus served as a symbol of the age.
Virginia Quarterly Review
This book will make an important contribution to nineteenth-century Russian studies. It is not for literary scholars alone; by examining suicide as a cultural institution, Paperno brings together the history of medicine, law, literature, and philosophy in a meaningful way.
Slavic Review

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