Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature

A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21119-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 10 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Russian History and Culture

Russian literature, Russian Silver Age, erotic writing, sex, Russian modernity and modernization, pornography in literature, literary libertinage, carnality and corporeality in literature, utopianism/anti-utopianism in Russian literary history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lalo, Alexei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques
1. Carnality and Eroticism in the History of Russian Literature: Toward a Genealogy of a Dis-course of Silence
2. Golden Silences in the Golden Age: Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov
3. Silence is Golden, Speech is Silver: Corporeality, Sensuality, and “Pornography” in Russian Literature of the Silver Age
4. Exploring the Impetus of the Silver Age: The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing
5. Nabokov’s Lolita and its Precursors: Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel
6. 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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexei Lalo, Ph.D. (2010) in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, teaches Russian literature at UT-Austin. He has published extensively on North American and Russian literature and culture, including a book on Thomas Pynchon (Minsk, 2001).