Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
In: Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici; (2023)
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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.
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Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Apollonio, Carol ; Garstka, Christoph |
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Quelle: | Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici; (2023) |
Veröffentlichung: | Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
Umfang: | 10 |
ISBN: | 979-12-215-0122-3 (print) |
ISSN: | 2612-7679 (print) |
DOI: | 10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.08 |
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