Susanne Fusso Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/sfusso Recent documents in Susanne Fusso en-us Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:19:01 PST 3600 Margarita D. Marinova, Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/34 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/34 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:53:05 PDT Susanne Fusso Redaktor Mikhail Katkov i kanon russkoi literatury http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/33 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/33 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:48:22 PDT Susanne Fusso Alexei Tsvetkov: Three Poems with Commentary and an Interview http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/32 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/32 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:46:58 PDT Susanne Fusso Pesnia o Staline: Tiuremnie pesni i ironiia http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/31 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/31 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:44:28 PDT Susanne Fusso Discovering Sexuality in Dostoevsky (paperback) http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/30 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/30 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:01:21 PDT Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote about sexuality from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. By looking at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time and that he, an avid reader and observer of his own social context, absorbed and reacted to, Susanne Fusso gives us a new way of understanding a critical element in the writing of one of Russia's literary masters. Beyond discovering Dostoevsky's own views and representations of sexuality as a reflection of his culture and his time, Fusso also explores his artistic treatment of how children and adolescents discover sexuality as part of their growth.

Some of the topics Fusso considers are Dostoevsky's search for an appropriate artistic language for sexuality, a young narrator's experimentation with homoerotic desire and unconventional narrative in A Raw Youth; and Dostoevsky's approach to a young man's sexual development in A Raw Youth and The Brothers Karamazov. She also explores his complex treatment of a child's secret sexuality in his account of the Kroneberg child abuse case in A Writer's Diary; and his conception of the ideal family, a type of family that appears in his works mainly by negative example. Focusing mainly on sexual practices considered "deviant" in Dostoevsky's time--both because these are the practices that his young characters confront and because they offer the most intriguing interpretive problems--Fusso decodes the author's texts and their social contexts. In doing so, she highlights one thread in the intricate thematic weave of Dostoevsky's novels and newly illuminates his artistic process.

]]> Susanne Fusso Books Alyosha Karamazov http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/29 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/29 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:26:36 PDT Susanne Fusso Translation Articles from Czech http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/28 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/28 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:25:24 PDT Susanne Fusso Translation The Portrait (1835 Version) http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/27 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/27 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:22:53 PDT Susanne Fusso et al. Translation America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/26 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/26 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:18:40 PDT Olga Peters Hasty et al. Translation Dead Souls http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/25 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/25 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:15:24 PDT Susanne Fusso et al. Translation A Russian Prince in the Soviet State: Stories, Letters from Exile, and Notes of a Cuirassier http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/24 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/24 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:12:02 PDT Susanne Fusso et al. Translation Review: Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz, Novel Epics: Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/23 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/23 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:34:48 PDT Susanne Fusso Reviews Review: Cathy Popkin, The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/22 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/22 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:32:36 PDT Susanne Fusso Reviews Review: Mikhail Vaiskopf, Siuzhet Gogolia: Morfologiia, Ideologiia, Konteks http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/21 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/21 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:31:24 PDT Susanne Fusso Reviews Review: Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature, ed. Nina Braginskaia and Kevin Moss, trans. Kevin Moss http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/20 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/20 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:29:17 PDT Susanne Fusso Reviews Review: Adele Marie Barker and Jehanne M. Gheith, eds., A History of Women's Writing in Russia http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/19 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/19 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:26:53 PDT Susanne Fusso Reviews Review: Julie A. Buckler, Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/18 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/18 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:23:24 PDT Susanne Fusso et al. Reviews Sobach'e serdtse -- Neuspekh prevrashcheniia http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/17 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/17 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:51:11 PDT Susanne Fusso Articles The Landscape of Arabesques http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/16 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/16 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:40:55 PDT Susanne Fusso Contributions to Books 'The Feasts of Ill Intention': Baratynskii and the Critics http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/15 http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/15 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:39:15 PDT Susanne Fusso et al. Contributions to Books