Libertinage in Russian culture and literature
Subtitle: a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity
By: by Alexei Lalo
Series: Russian history and culture -- v. 8
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789004211193
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Sexuality; Russian literature; Libertines in literature; Erotica; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques; title: Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence; title: Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov; title: Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age; title: Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing; title: Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel; title: Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry; title: Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.