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In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia. This study illustrates how the traditional virtue ethic, grounded in property-based conceptions of masculine heroism, was eventually displaced by a new commercial ethic that rested upon consensual fantasy. The new economic world destabilized traditional Russian notions of virtue and posed a central question that Russian authors have struggled to answer since the early nineteenth century: How could a self-interested commercial man be incorporated into the Russian context as a socially valuable masculine character? With chapters on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well as Pasternak and Nabokov, The Woman in the Window argues that Russian authors worked through this question via their depictions of “mixed-up men.” Such characters, according to Valentino, reveal that in a world where social reality and personal identity depend on consensual fantasies, the old masculine figure loses its grounding and can easily drift away. Valentino charts a range of masculine character types thrown off stride by the new commercially inflected world: those who embrace blind confidence, those who are split with doubt or guilt, and those who look for an ideal of steadfastness and purity to keep afloat―a woman in a window.
Hardcover:
9780814212677 | Ohio State Univ Pr, October 28, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia.
Paperback:
9780814252871 | Reprint edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, June 1, 2016), cover price $21.95
Product Description: In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia...read more
Hardcover:
9780814293713 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, October 28, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia.
Product Description: When Michael Henry Heim—one of the most respected translators of his generation—passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus, and Anton Chekov...read more
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9781940953007 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, October 7, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When Michael Henry Heim—one of the most respected translators of his generation—passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy.
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9781861893376 | Reaktion Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Through short, historical vignettes on spiritual teachers and brief stories, this narrative examines the Zen-like spiritual practices of Central Asian Sufism and provides a personal account of the seekerâs own entry into the traditions of the Naqshbandiya of Uzbekistan...read more
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9780975444429 | Autumn Hill Books, December 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Through short, historical vignettes on spiritual teachers and brief stories, this narrative examines the Zen-like spiritual practices of Central Asian Sufism and provides a personal account of the seekerâs own entry into the traditions of the Naqshbandiya of Uzbekistan.
Product Description: Alternating between Renaissance Italy and Yugoslavia during the time of Tito, this novel tells two tales of love, intrigue, and betrayal. It is the summer of 1995, the war in Bosnia is raging, and the young Bosnian narrator is taking a tour of an Italian Renaissance castle...read more
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9780975444405 | Italian edition edition (Autumn Hill Books, June 1, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Alternating between Renaissance Italy and Yugoslavia during the time of Tito, this novel tells two tales of love, intrigue, and betrayal.
Miscellaneous:
9780975444436 | Autumn Hill Books, June 1, 2005, cover price $10.00
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Hardcover:
9780820449036 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $66.95
Product Description: Francesco Koslovic -- even his name straddles two cultures. And in the spring of 1955, in the village of Materada on the Istrian Peninsula, the two worlds of Francesco Koslovic are coming apart. A novel both lyrical and elegiac, Materada unfolds against the backdrop of the Istrian exodus -- the departure from their homeland of hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in the peninsula's rich ethnic mixture of Italian and Slav, Croat and Slovene...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810117587 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Francesco Koslovic -- even his name straddles two cultures.
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