Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature: A Bio-History of Sexualities at the Threshold of ModernityBRILL, 9 sept. 2011 - 304 pages 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 in direct confrontation with the traditional high cultures of the upper classes and intelligentsia, producing modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian tradition of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed by literary history, emerges as what Foucault would call a full-blown “bio-history” of Russian culture: a history of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized body capable of innovation on its own terms, not just those derivative from Europe. |
Table des matières
Approaching Russian Silences and Burlesques | 1 |
Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse of Silence | 23 |
Russian Anxieties of the Body and Sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov | 59 |
Corporeality Sensuality and Pornography in Russian Literature of the Silver Age | 119 |
The Evolution of Discourses of Carnality and Eroticism in PreRevolutionary Russian Literature and in Émigré Writing | 173 |
Silver Age Roots and Sexuality in the Novel | 219 |
Sexual and Erotic Themes in his Poetry | 253 |
Russias Threshold of Modernity and Literary Representations of Sexuality in the Era of Biopower | 271 |
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