Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature by Irina Reyfman

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature

Irina Reyfman

364 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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In the Russian cultural imagination, duelling crossed the boundaries of purely aristocratic experience and acquired the status of heroic behavior representative of national character, as is shown in many works of literature, popular fiction, and h...

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