Libertinage in Russian culture and literature a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity /

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Hovedforfatter: Lalo, Alexei
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Serier:Russian history and culture ; RH8.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques
  • Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence
  • Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov
  • Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age
  • Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing
  • Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel
  • Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry
  • Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.