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Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote about sexuality from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. By looking at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time and that he, an avid reader and observer of his own social context, absorbed and reacted to, Susanne Fusso gives us a new way of understanding a critical element in the writing of one of Russia's literary masters. Beyond discovering Dostoevsky's own views and representations of sexuality as a reflection of his culture and his time, Fusso also explores his artistic treatment of how children and adolescents discover sexuality as part of their growth. Some of the topics Fusso considers are Dostoevsky's search for an appropriate artistic language for sexuality, a young narrator's experimentation with homoerotic desire and unconventional narrative in "A Raw Youth"; and Dostoevsky's approach to a young man's sexual development in "A Raw Youth" and "The Brothers Karamazov". She also explores his complex treatment of a child's secret sexuality in his account of the Kroneberg child abuse case in "A Writer's Diary"; and his conception of the ideal family, a type of family that appears in his works mainly by negative example. Focusing mainly on sexual practices considered "deviant" in Dostoevsky's time - both because these are the practices that his young characters confront and because they offer the most intriguing interpretive problems - Fusso decodes the author's texts and their social contexts. In doing so, she highlights one thread in the intricate thematic weave of Dostoevsky's novels and newly illuminates his artistic process.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Chapter 1: "Secrets of Art" & "Secrets of Kissing": Towards a Poetics of Sexuality in Dostoevsky; Chapter 2: The Insulted Female Child; Chapter 3: Dostoevsky's Comely Boy: Homoerotic Desire & Aesthetic Strangers in A Raw Youth; Chapter 4: The Sexuality of the Male Virgin in A Raw Youth & The Brothers Karamazov; Chapter 5: A Writer's Diary: The "Secret Vice" of Marlla Kroneberg; Chapter 6: The Missing Family; Appendix to Chapters Five & Six.

About the Author :
Susanne Fusso is a professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol (Stanford, 1993). She is the translator and editor of A Russian Prince in the Soviet State: Hunting Stories, Letters from Exile, and Military Memoirs (2005) and coeditor of Essays on Karolina Pavlova (2001) and Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word (1994), all published by Northwestern University Press.

Review :
"One of the finest new works on Doestoevsky to appear in the last several years." --Canadian Slavonic Papers "This new study is essential reading for specialist and student alike." --The Russian Review "Fusso must be commended for recognizing that Dostoevsky's explorations of sexuality take pace within a larger moral framework." --Choice magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780810121072
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
  • Height: 237 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0810121077
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jul 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 511 gr


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