At home in the margins : Vasily Rozanov, autobiography and alterity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In analyzing the works of Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919), this dissertation departs from the critical tendency to separate Rozanov's journalistic and philosophical works from his more famous autobiographical "trilogy": "Solitaria" (1911), "Fallen Leaves, Basketful I" (1913), and "Fallen Leaves, Basketful II" (1915). Addressing Rozanov's early writings, such as "In the Land of the Unclear and Undecided" (1901) and "The Family Question in Russia" (1903), as well as his problematic texts, such as "The Tactile and Olfactory Relation of Jews to Blood" (1914), in concert with his "Fallen Leaves" trilogy, the author points out the constancy, if not always in Rozanov's ideas, then in his performative self-presentation, which focused on the I's alterability and the autobiographer's interaction with figures of alterity. According to this reading, Rozanov emerges as part of a number of important 20th century trends that emphasize literary performance, the intersection of the body and the text, and the interaction of self and other. Rozanov's philosophical interest in physical intimacy and the body and his theoretical concern with the textual interrelations of self and other shape this dissertation's organization: Chapter 1 focuses on autobiography and the body and Chapter 2 considers the autobiographer's interactions with others' texts. Each section also counterposes Rozanov with other writers, such as his idol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and literary theorists, such as Viktor Shklovsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jacques Derrida. In this author's view, Rozanov not only influences Bakhtin, whose concept of the grotesque, carnival body is shockingly Rozanovian, but many aspects of his texts also emerge as a parallel to the writings of performative theorists like Derrida.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Erman, Irina M |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
| Primary advisor | Greenleaf, Monika, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Greenleaf, Monika, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Freidin, Gregory |
| Thesis advisor | Safran, Gabriella, 1967- |
| Advisor | Freidin, Gregory |
| Advisor | Safran, Gabriella, 1967- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Irina M Erman. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Irina M Erman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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