03467nam 22006614a 450 991096127020332120200520144314.09786612697500978128269750812826975019780299229535029922953X(CKB)2520000000006598(OCoLC)608692469(CaPaEBR)ebrary10370387(SSID)ssj0000412783(PQKBManifestationID)11306654(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412783(PQKBWorkID)10369447(PQKB)10612124(MdBmJHUP)muse12343(Au-PeEL)EBL3444976(CaPaEBR)ebr10370387(CaONFJC)MIL269750(MiAaPQ)EBC3444976(Perlego)4453175(EXLCZ)99252000000000659820080326d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeyond the flesh Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist sublimation of sex /Jenifer Presto1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc20081 online resource (354 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299229504 0299229505 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-315) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Introduction Beyond the Flesh: Russian Symbolism and the Sublimation of Sex -- I. Poetry against Progeny: Blok and the Problem of Poetic Reproduction -- 1. Unbearable Burdens: Blok and the Modernist Resistance to Progeny -- 2. Recurring Nightmares: Blok, Freud, and the Specter of Die Ahnfrau -- 3. Reproductive Fantasies: Blok and the Creation of The Italian Verses -- 4. A Time of Troubles: Blok and the Disruption of Poetic Succession -- II. Writing against the Body: Gippius and the Problem of Lyric Embodiment -- 5. Style "Femme": Gippius and the Resistance to Feminine Writing -- 6. The Dandy's Gaze: Gippius and Disdainful Desire forthe Feminine -- 7. Eternal Feminine Problems: Gippius, Blok, and the Incarnationof the Ideal -- 8. Body Trouble: Gippius and the Staging of an Anatomy of Criticism -- Afterword - The Return of the Repressed: Illegitmate Babies and an Unwieldy Body -- Notes -- Index.Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Beyond the Flesh documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of two of the most important Russian Symbolists.Symbolism (Literary movement)RussiaSublimation (Psychology) in literatureSex in literatureSymbolism (Literary movement)Sublimation (Psychology) in literature.Sex in literature.891.71/3Presto Jenifer1806541MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961270203321Beyond the flesh4355774UNINA