Endocrine Glands and the Anthropocene: Metabolic Storytelling in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

Elena Fratto

doi:10.1016/j.ruslit.2020.07.003

Endocrine Glands and the Anthropocene: Metabolic Storytelling in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

Elena Fratto

Slavic Lang & Literatures

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Abstract

This essay aims to show how Mikhail Bulgakov's novella Heart of a Dog (Sobach'e serdtse, 1925) challenges the markedly anthropocentric view of narrative time and narrative agency that characterized early Soviet aesthetics. By offering a reading of the text that takes into account the history of early twentieth-century endocrinology, theories of narrative, and the post-human approach, the analysis will reveal how an endocrine gland, the hypophysis (also known as the pituitary) and its functions complicate established notions of those two narratological categories.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	45-65
Number of pages	21
Journal	Russian Literature
Volume	114-115
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2020.07.003
State	Published - Jun 1 2020

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Literature and Literary Theory

Keywords

Anthropocene
Bulgakov
Environmental Humanities
Medical Humanities
Narratology
Soviet Science

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