Table of Contents: Libertinage in Russian culture and literature

Main Author:	Lalo, Alexei.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:	Russian history and culture, v. 8
Subjects:	Russian literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Russian literature > History and criticism. > 20th century Libertines in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10497364

Table of Contents:

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.