Political animals representing dogs in modern Russian culture / by Henrietta Mondry.

Author/creator Mondry, Henrietta
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
Descriptionxviii, 432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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Portion of title Representing dogs in modern Russian culture
SeriesStudies in Slavic literature and poetics, 0169-0175 ; volume 59
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics v. 59. ^A794067
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [391]-421) and index.
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LCCN 2015930710
ISBN9789042039025
ISBN9042039027
Standard identifier# 9789042039025

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