| Description |
1 online resource (x, 291 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Russian history and culture,
1877-7791 ;
v. 8
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Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
The monograph explores traditions of expressing the body and sexuality (designated as "silence" and "burlesque") throughout Russia's literary history, with a particular focus on how these traditions affect the literary modernization during the Silver Age (1890-1921) and subsequent émigré writing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Libertines in literature.
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Libertines in literature. |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lalo, Alexei. Libertinage in Russian culture and literature. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004211193 (DLC) 2011028623 (OCoLC)743298779 |
| ISBN |
9789004211209 (electronic book) |
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9004211209 (electronic book) |
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1283270714 |
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9781283270717 |
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9789004211193 |
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9004211195 |
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