TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lalo,Alexei
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Libertinage in Russian culture and literature: a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity 
T2  - Russian history and culture,
AV  - PG3011 .L27 2011eb
U1  - 891.7/09358 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Libertines in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques -- Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence -- Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov -- Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age -- Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing -- Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel -- Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry -- Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10497364
ER  -