Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature ：A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity

Publication series ：1

Author： Lalo   Alexei  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9789004211209

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004211193

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004211193

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Language： ENG

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Description

The monograph explores traditions of expressing the body and sexuality (designated as silence and burlesque) throughout Russias literary history, with a particular focus on how these traditions affect the literary modernization during the Silver Age (1890-1921) and subsequent émigré writing.

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Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Acknowledgments

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques

pp.：  11 – 32

Chapter One Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse of Silence

pp.：  33 – 68

Chapter Two Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov

pp.：  69 – 128

Chapter Three Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age

pp.：  129 – 182

Chapter Four Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing

pp.：  183 – 228

Chapter Five Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel

pp.：  229 – 262

Chapter Six Joseph Brodsky’s Libertinage: Sexual and Erotic Themes in his Poetry

pp.：  263 – 280

Conclusion: Russia’s “Threshold of Modernity” and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Bio-power

pp.：  281 – 286

Bibliography

pp.：  287 – 296

Index of Names

pp.：  297 – 302

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