Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
| dc.contributor.author | Apollonio, Carol | |
| dc.contributor.author | Garstka, Christoph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-03T15:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-03T15:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.identifier | ONIX_20230803_9791221501223_166 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2612-7679 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74970 | |
| dc.language | Russian | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Dostoevsky | |
| dc.subject.other | ascetism | |
| dc.subject.other | sectarianism | |
| dc.subject.other | castrates | |
| dc.subject.other | drunkenness | |
| dc.title | Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears | |
| dc.type | chapter | |
| oapen.abstract.otherlanguage | In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents act spontaneously to gratify their desires. The current study draws an analogy between the behavior pattern of Dostoevsky’s self-denying intellectual heroes and that of exiled castrate (skoptsy) communities. Dostoevsky’s ascetics represent a cerebral mindset attracted to visions of social utopia; their intellectualizing detaches them from the life of the body and thus weirdly parallels the strictures of the skoptsy. An encounter between an ascetic and a prostitute serves as a central plot moment in works such as Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground. | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.08 | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 | |
| oapen.relation.isPartOfBook | Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж | |
| oapen.relation.isPartOfBook | bf5768b0-3a15-46c5-b309-49f31339b93d | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9791221501223 | |
| oapen.series.number | 52 | |
| oapen.pages | 10 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Florence |
