Beyond the Flesh - Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex

Informationen zum Autor Jenifer Presto is associate professor of comparative literature and Russian at the University of Oregon. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex! many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited a preoccupation with matters of the flesh. This book documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius.

Product details

• Authors: Jenifer Presto
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780299229504
• ISBN: 978-0-299-22950-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories