Exotic Moscow under Western eyes - Masing-Delic, I., (Irene) (Academic Studies Press, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index
The music of ecstasy and the picture of harmony: Nietzsche's Dionysus and Apollo in Turgenev's "Song of triumphant love" -- A change of gender roles: the Pygmalion motif in Jane Austen's Emma and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov -- Clairvoyant mothers and erring sons: Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment and Conrad's Under Western eyes -- Rescuing culture from civilization: Gorky, Gogol, Sologub and the Mediterranean model -- The "castrator" Rogozhin and the "castrate" Smerdiakov: incarnations of Dostoevsky's 'devil-bearing' people? -- Who are the Tatars in Alexander Bolk's The homeland? The East in the literary-ideological discourse of the Russian symbolists -- Gothic historiosophy: the Pani Katerina story in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Larissa-Lolita, or catharsis and dolor, in the artist-novels Doktor Zhivago and Lolita -- Survival of the superfluous: doubling and mimicry in Nabokov's Podvig-Glory -- Moscow in the tropics: exotica in Valerii Briusov's early urban poetry