LEADER 03467nam 22006614a 450 001 9910961270203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612697500 010 $a9781282697508 010 $a1282697501 010 $a9780299229535 010 $a029922953X 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006598 035 $a(OCoLC)608692469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10370387 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412783 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412783 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10369447 035 $a(PQKB)10612124 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10370387 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444976 035 $a(Perlego)4453175 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006598 100 $a20080326d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond the flesh $eAlexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist sublimation of sex /$fJenifer Presto 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299229504 311 08$a0299229505 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-315) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThough 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. 606 $aSymbolism (Literary movement)$zRussia 606 $aSublimation (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aSymbolism (Literary movement) 615 0$aSublimation (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a891.71/3 700 $aPresto$b Jenifer$01806541 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961270203321 996 $aBeyond the flesh$94355774 997 $aUNINA