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100 1 $aMondry, Henrietta,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPolitical animals :$brepresenting dogs in modern Russian culture /$cby Henrietta Mondry.
264 1 $aLeiden, The Netherlands :$bBrill Rodopi,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $axviii, 451 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudies in Slavic literature and poetics,$x0169-0175 ;$v59
520 8 $aThis 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aDogs$xSocial aspects$zRussia (Federation)
650 0 $aDogs in literature.
650 0 $aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 12 $aDogs$xhistory.
650 7 $aDogs$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00896349
651 7 $aRussia (Federation)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01262050
830 0 $aStudies in Slavic literature and poetics ;$vv. 59.
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