 | Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky''s Russia Subjects: Suicide -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Suicide -- Social aspects; Dostoyevsky Fyodor 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation; Suicide in literature; Russia -- Civilization -- 1801-1917; Analyzing a variety of sources--medical reports, social treatises, legal codes, newspaper articles, fiction, private documents left by suicides--Irina Paperno describes the search for the meaning of suicide. Paperno focuses on Russia of the 1860s-1880s. Irina Paperno is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of Tartu University in the former Soviet Union, she holds advanced degrees in Slavic languages and literatures and in psychology from Stanford University. She is the author of Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior . |
