Ritualized violence Russian style : the duel in Russian culture and literature / Irina Reyfman.

"To this day, Russian cultural memory has preserved a glamorous image of the Russian duelist: a gentleman, he is always true to his honor; he elegantly challenges his offender for some equally elegant indiscretion, behaves courageously and magnanimously at the dueling site, and shows fortitude...

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Main Author: Reyfman, Irina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1999.
Series:Studies of the Harriman Institute.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: The Mythologies of the Russian Duel and the Difficulties of Fact-Finding --  |t The Duel as an Act of Violence: Terms and Definitions --  |t A Brief History of Dueling in Russia --  |t Physical Inviolability and the Duel --  |t Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature: The Duel Begins --  |t Aleksandr Bestuzhev-Marlinsky: Bretteur and Apologist of the Duel --  |t How Not to Fight: Dueling in Dostoevsky's Works --  |t Instead of a Conclusion: In the Aftermath of Dostoevsky. 
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520 8 |a "This book argues that the Russian duel acquired its enduring prestige because it served to define and to defend personal autonomy in a hierarchical state that lacked legal guarantees against corporal punishment. To fight a tradition that tolerated superiors' punching and slapping their subordinates, Russian duelists embraced raw violence and incorporated it into dueling procedure, thus replacing the hierarchical - and therefore humiliating - violence of corporal punishment with the equalizing violence of the duel. Once made reciprocal, a punishing gesture (such as a slap in the face) lost its capacity to impose a hierarchy of authority and became a means of promoting equality between the parties."--Jacket. 
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