Beyond the flesh : Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist sublimation of sex / Jenifer Presto.
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 psycho...
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| 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. Jenifer Presto argues that the difficulties encountered in reading Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius within either a feminist or a traditional, binary gendered framework derive not only from the peculiarities of their creative personalities but also from the specific Russian cultural context. Although these two poets engaged in gendered practices that, at times, appeared to be highly idiosyncratic and even incited gossip among their contemporaries, they were not operating in a vacuum. Instead, they were responding to philosophical concepts that were central to Russian Symbolism and that would continue to shape modernism in Russia. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780299229535 029922953X 0299229505 9780299229504 1282697501 9781282697508 9786612697500 6612697504 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |