Beyond the flesh : Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist sublimation of sex / Jenifer Presto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Presto, Jenifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolism (Literary movement)--Russia.

Symbolism (Literary movement).

Sublimation (Psychology) in literature.

Sex in literature.

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1880-1921--Criticism and interpretation.

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.

Gippius, Z. N. (Zinaida Nikolaevna), 1869-1945--Criticism and interpretation.

Gippius, Z. N.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-315) and index.

ISBN:

9786612697500

9781282697508

1282697501

9780299229535

029922953X

OCLC:

608692469