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Political animals : representing dogs in modern Russian culture
- Title
- Political animals : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / by Henrietta Mondry.
- Author
- Mondry, Henrietta
- Publication
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 432 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the representation of dogs in Russian discourse since the nineteenth century. Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems, in literature, film and other cultural productions, it shows that the dog as a political construct incorporates various contradictions, with different representations investing the dog with multiple, often-paradoxical meanings - moral, social and philosophical. From the peasantry's dislike of the gentry's hunting dogs and children's cruelty to dogs in Pushkin and Dostoevsky to the establishment of the Soviet dynasties of border guard and police dogs, from Pavlov's laboratory dogs to the monuments to the cosmic dog Laika and the subversive dog impersonations by the contemporary performance artist Oleg Kulik, the book explores the intersections of species-class-gender-sexuality-race-disability and, paradoxically, of Arcadian and Utopian dreams and scientific deeds. This study contributes to the unfolding cultural history of human-animal relations across cultures.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; 59
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 59.
- Alternative Title
- Representing dogs in modern Russian culture
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-421) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-4858
- ISBN
- 9789042039025
- 9042039027
- 9789401211840 (online) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015930710
- 9789042039025
- OCLC
- 899979267
- Author
- Mondry, Henrietta, author.
- Title
- Political animals : representing dogs in modern Russian culture / by Henrietta Mondry.
- Publisher
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; 59Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 59.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-421) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789042039025
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-4858