Passion, Humiliation, Revenge

Hatred in Man-Woman Relationships in the 19th and 20th Century Russian Novel

Rina Lapidus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2747-6 (ISBN)

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This book reveals the phenomenon in Russian prose in which a male protagonist finds himself perpetuating a cycle of passion, humiliation, and revenge within his relationships with women. By examining the mental and emotional state of the male protagonist who finds himself in a sexual situation, Rina Lapidus explores how his passion for a woman leads the man into an encounter that causes him humiliation and ends up eliciting a powerful desire on his part to punish the woman who initially arouses his erotic feeling. The male protagonist directs his fury at the woman, seeking vengeance because of the shame he has suffered.

Lapidus shows how the man sees himself as a highly spiritual being and finds it difficult to comes to terms with his sexual nature. The author argues that this denial of desire leads the man to take out his frustration with himself on the woman, projecting all of his faults and guilt onto her. When the woman brings the male protagonist low, his thirst for revenge becomes a powerful driving force in his life that eventually brings about his downfall. This book will be of interest to those studying in the areas of Russian literature, psychology, and gender studies.

Rina Lapidus is associate professor of comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Chapter 1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Dedication
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Aim and Structure of the Book
Chapter 4 1. The Evolution of Attitudes toward Women in Russian Literature
Chapter 5 2. Spiritual and Physical Murder Between Man and Woman: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Chapter 6 3. Woman as Sexual Predator: Tolstoy, Zoschenko, and Trifonov
Chapter 7 4. Woman's Infidelity as the Cause for Man's Devastation: Tolstoy v. Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and Chekhov
Chapter 8 5. Anxiety about the Strong Woman: Turgenev, Leskov, Bulgakov
Chapter 9 6. Surrogate for the Man-Woman Relations in the Post-War Soviet Literature: Vasilyiev, Grossman, and Rasputin
Chapter 10 7. Eunuch as Hero in the Late-Soviet andPerestroika Literature: Dovlatov, Nagibin, and Polyakov
Chapter 11 8. Man as an Object in Literature by Women: Shcherbakvoa, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and Grekova
Chapter 12 Conclusion: Sex an an Animal Act beyond Comprehension
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.9.2008
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 241 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7391-2747-0 / 0739127470
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2747-6 / 9780739127476
Zustand	Neuware