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Women with a Thirst for Destruction
Jenny Kaminer
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Description for Women with a Thirst for Destruction
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country’s history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov’s Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet ... Read more
In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country’s history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov’s Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Number of Pages
236
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129467
SKU
V9780810129467
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About Jenny Kaminer
Jenny Kaminer is an assistant professor of Russian at the University of California, Davis, USA.
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