Libertinage in Russian culture and literature : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / / by Alexei Lalo.
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| Superior document: | Russian history and culture, v. 8 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Russian history and culture ;
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| Physical Description: | x, 291 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.