Mikhail Bulgakov’s science-fiction novella “A Dog’s Heart” (Собачье сердце, 1925) is a brilliantly wry account of an experiment to graft human organs onto the body of a stray mutt, with unexpected consequences. The dog turns into a despicable, unruly hominid that wreaks havoc in Professor Preobrazhensky’s already endangered bourgeois existence. Critics have seen the story mostly as a prophecy predicting the downfall of the “homo sovieticus”: the uncontaminated, witty voice of the dog-narrator does not spare either the aristocratic opportunists of the new regime, or the violent, unruly proletarians. However, from an animal studies perspective, Bulgakov’s story, along with examples from Mikhail Zoschchenko’s and William Golding’s anti-utopian...
In Zarathustra\u27s On the Vision and the Riddle, three animals-a spider, a snake, and a dog-make ...
Dogs occupy a curiously important place in Russian and Slavic cultural history. Their role is eviden...
With the intent of developing a method for classifying talking-dog stories of critical interest, thi...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s science-fiction novella “A Dog’s Heart” (Собачье сердце, 1925) is a brilliantly w...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s science-fiction novella A Dog’s Heart (??????? ???...
In this article, I propose a new reading of Heart of a Dog, one that takes seriously Professor Preob...
This short article is showing through a textual analysis of Bulgakov's novel how it is built on sati...
Following the recent “animal turn” in literary studies, which has inspired scholars to revisit tradi...
When we try and contemplate who it is that we think we are in the world history has an important rol...
We wstępie przedstawiono koncepcje państwa i społeczeństwa idealnego, zawarte w utworach wybranych f...
This article offers a posthumanist reading of two of Theodor Fontane’s novels, Frau Jenny Treibel an...
Literature offers us plenty on ‘humanized animals’, but traditionally they are fantastic or allegori...
This comparative analysis focuses on Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (1925) and Vladimir Mayakovsk...
The article focuses on the notion of animality in the context of the humanist conception in Russian ...
Animals complicate everything. They are implicated in science, in theology; they change the course o...
In Zarathustra\u27s On the Vision and the Riddle, three animals-a spider, a snake, and a dog-make ...
Dogs occupy a curiously important place in Russian and Slavic cultural history. Their role is eviden...
With the intent of developing a method for classifying talking-dog stories of critical interest, thi...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s science-fiction novella “A Dog’s Heart” (Собачье сердце, 1925) is a brilliantly w...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s science-fiction novella A Dog’s Heart (??????? ???...
In this article, I propose a new reading of Heart of a Dog, one that takes seriously Professor Preob...
This short article is showing through a textual analysis of Bulgakov's novel how it is built on sati...
Following the recent “animal turn” in literary studies, which has inspired scholars to revisit tradi...
When we try and contemplate who it is that we think we are in the world history has an important rol...
We wstępie przedstawiono koncepcje państwa i społeczeństwa idealnego, zawarte w utworach wybranych f...
This article offers a posthumanist reading of two of Theodor Fontane’s novels, Frau Jenny Treibel an...
Literature offers us plenty on ‘humanized animals’, but traditionally they are fantastic or allegori...
This comparative analysis focuses on Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (1925) and Vladimir Mayakovsk...
The article focuses on the notion of animality in the context of the humanist conception in Russian ...
Animals complicate everything. They are implicated in science, in theology; they change the course o...
In Zarathustra\u27s On the Vision and the Riddle, three animals-a spider, a snake, and a dog-make ...
Dogs occupy a curiously important place in Russian and Slavic cultural history. Their role is eviden...
With the intent of developing a method for classifying talking-dog stories of critical interest, thi...