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UNINA9910826541903321 |
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Autore |
Lalo Alexei |
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Titolo |
Libertinage in Russian culture and literature [[electronic resource] ] : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / / by Alexei Lalo |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27071-4 |
9786613270719 |
90-04-21120-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Collana |
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Russian history and culture, , 1877-7791 ; ; v. 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Libertines in literature |
Modernism (Literature) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian popular culture for the first time found itself |
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