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Political Animals: Representing Dogs in Modern Russian Culture (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 59) by Henrietta Mondry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Henrietta Mondry

Publisher

Brill | Rodopi

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781336099081

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Agriculture