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Beyond the flesh :

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Beyond the flesh :

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[Book]

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Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist sublimation of sex /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jenifer Presto.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Madison, Wis. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Wisconsin Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

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1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) :

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illustrations

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

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Poetry against progeny: Blok and the problem of poetic reproduction. Unbearable burdens: Blok and the modernist resistance to progeny ; Recurring nightmares: Blok, Freud, and the specter of Die Ahnfrau ; Reproductive fantasies: Blok and the creation of The Italian verses ; A time of troubles: Blok and the disruption of poetic succession -- Writing against the body: Gippius and the problem of lyric embodiment. Style "femme": Gippius and the resistance to feminine writing ; The dandy's gaze: Gippius and disdainful desire for the feminine ; Eternal feminine problems: Gippius, Blok, and the incarnation of the ideal ; Body trouble: Gippius and the staging of an anatomy of criticism -- Afterword: the return of the repressed: illegitimate babies and an unwieldy body.

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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.

Title

Beyond the flesh.

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9780299229504

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

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

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich,1880-1921.

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

Sex in literature.

Sublimation (Psychology) in literature.

Symbolism (Literary movement)-- Russia.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Russian & Former Soviet Union.

Sex in literature.

Sublimation (Psychology) in literature.

Symbolism (Literary movement)

Russia.

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LIT-- 004240

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Presto, Jenifer.

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20201207182619.0

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