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Author Lalo, Alexei.

Title Libertinage in Russian culture and literature [electronic resource] : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Alexei Lalo.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description x, 291 p.
Series Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; v. 8
Russian history and culture ; RH8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Libertines in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004211193 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004211209 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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