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Related, strictly speaking: The problem of family in the prose of Anton Chekhov.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Related, strictly speaking: The problem of family in the prose of Anton Chekhov./
Author:	Purves, Mark Richard.
Description:	234 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Julian W. Connolly.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Literature, Slavic and East European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3294798
ISBN:	9780549396086

Related, strictly speaking: The problem of family in the prose of Anton Chekhov.
Purves, Mark Richard.

Related, strictly speaking: The problem of family in the prose of Anton Chekhov. - 234 p.

Adviser: Julian W. Connolly.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2008.

This dissertation explores the themes of identity and family in the prose of Anton Chekhov, focusing on the individual's struggle to develop an autonomous sense of self within the family while creating meaningful relationships among those belonging to the family itself.

ISBN: 9780549396086Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022083
Literature, Slavic and East European.

Related, strictly speaking: The problem of family in the prose of Anton Chekhov.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the themes of identity and family in the prose of Anton Chekhov, focusing on the individual's struggle to develop an autonomous sense of self within the family while creating meaningful relationships among those belonging to the family itself.
520 $a Within nearly every fictional family populating Chekhov's literary landscapes, there exist individuals convinced that the purpose of life lies outside the role one plays at home as either a spouse, sibling, son, or daughter. From his earliest sketches in 1880, to the publication of "My Life" nearly two decades later, Chekhov sought to provide a definition of this role by focusing on the individual within the family. To do this, the author advances a complex view of self as an inviolable being whose sense of purpose derives from a longing to maintain his fundamental autonomy while engaging others in a meaningful way.
520 $a After detailing the process by which a family member gradually gives voice to his latent sense of self, Chekhov shifts his focus to the consequences of one's efforts to establish an identity distinct from the family body. Though these attempts take place in a variety of domestic settings irrespective of class and involve family members of both genders, the price the individual pays for self-assertion is always the same: expulsion from the family. Calling attention to the family's nearly universal animus toward individual expression. Chekhov confronts the question: Can the individual truly find self-fulfillment as a part of---though possibly apart from---the larger family unit? Chekhov's work serves to answer this question through the author's provocative understanding of alienation, demonstrating that the period following the individual's estrangement from the family---while painful---affords one the opportunity to achieve what would have been impossible within the familiar and often rigid confines of home: self-definition. Once the individual reaches adequate self-definition---a process realizable only outside the family structure---the formerly spurned family member can reintegrate himself into the group at a more significant level, positively contributing to the relationships making up the whole, while never compromising the essential autonomy to which all of Chekhov's characters are entitled.
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