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1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Poetry against progeny: Blok and the problem of poetic reproduction. Unbearable burdens: Blok and the modernist resistance to progeny ; Recurring nightmares: Blok, Freud, and the specter of Die Ahnfrau ; Reproductive fantasies: Blok and the creation of The Italian verses ; A time of troubles: Blok and the disruption of poetic succession -- Writing against the body: Gippius and the problem of lyric embodiment. Style "femme": Gippius and the resistance to feminine writing ; The dandy's gaze: Gippius and disdainful desire for the feminine ; Eternal feminine problems: Gippius, Blok, and the incarnation of the ideal ; Body trouble: Gippius and the staging of an anatomy of criticism -- Afterword: the return of the repressed: illegitimate babies and an unwieldy body. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-315) and index. |
| Summary |
Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Beyond the Flesh documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of two of the most important Russian Symbolists. Jenifer Presto argues that the difficulties encountered in reading Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius within either a feminist or a traditional, binary gendered framework derive not only from the peculiarities of their creative personalities but also from the specific Russian cultural context. Although these two poets engaged in gendered practices that, at times, appeared to be highly idiosyncratic and even incited gossip among their contemporaries, they were not operating in a vacuum. Instead, they were responding to philosophical concepts that were central to Russian Symbolism and that would continue to shape modernism in Russia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1880-1921 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1880-1921. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Gippius, Z. N. (Zinaida Nikolaevna), 1869-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Gippius, Z. N. (Zinaida Nikolaevna), 1869-1945. |
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Symbolism (Literary movement) -- Russia.
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Symbolism (Literary movement) |
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Russia. |
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Sublimation (Psychology) in literature.
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Sublimation (Psychology) in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Presto, Jenifer. Beyond the flesh. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2008 9780299229504 (DLC) 2008011968 (OCoLC)223105009 |
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9780299229535 (electronic book) |
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029922953X (electronic book) |
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0299229505 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299229504 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1282697501 |
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9781282697508 |
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9780299229504 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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