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Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky's "Netochka Nezvanova" and the Poetics of Codependency

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Description for Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky's "Netochka Nezvanova" and the Poetics of Codependency Paperback. Shows how, at age twenty-eight, Dostoevsky illustrated the workings of emotional addiction that became the scholarly focus of practitioners of mental health. This book provides an example of what psychologists today call codependency. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, Netochka Nezvanova, written in 1849, remains the least studied and understood of the writer's long fiction, but it was a seedbed for many topics and themes that became hallmarks of his major works. Specifically, Netochka Nezvanova was the first in Dostoevsky's corpus to focus on the psychology of children and the first to feature a woman in a leading and narrative role. It was also the first work in Russian literature to deal with problems of the family.

In Heroine Abuse, Thomas Marullo contends that Netochka Nezvanova also provides a striking example of what psychologists today ... Read more

Readers of Heroine Abuse will see Netochka Nezvanova as a timeless model in depicting codependency in the world of the twenty-first century as it did in St. Petersburg in 1849. Marullo's original work will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and comparative fiction; to doctors, psychologists, and therapists; to laymen and women interested in relationship addiction; and, finally, to codependents and relationship addicts of all types.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875807201
SKU
V9780875807201
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Thomas Gaiton Marullo is professor of Russian and Russian literature at the University of Notre Dame. His major works include multiple books about Ivan Bunin, Cursed Days, The Liberation of Tolstoy, About Chekho, and Petersburg.

Reviews for Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky's "Netochka Nezvanova" and the Poetics of Codependency
Heroine Abuse goes a significant way towards restoring Netochka Nezvanova to its rightful place in Dostoevskii's oeuvre.Slavonic & East European Review
Slavonic and East European Review
Its clear structure, its copious notes and references to scholarship, along with Marullo's extremely close reading, result in this monograph becoming a primary source on Netochka Nezvanova for scholars of Russian literature. ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky's "Netochka Nezvanova" and the Poetics of Codependency


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