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Erotic utopia : the decadent imagination in Russia's fin-de-siècle /

The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety resulting from the belief that they were living in an age of decline. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death both by metaphysical and physical means....

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Main Author: Matich, Olga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Decadence (Literary movement) > Russia.
Decadence (Literary movement) > Soviet Union.
Authors, Russian > 19th century > Attitudes.
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Attitudes.
Sex in literature.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780299208837
0299208834
0299208842
9780299208844
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Lev Tolstoy as early modernist : fragmenting and dissecting the body
  • The meaning of the meaning of love : what is erotic about Vladimir Solov'ev's utopia?
  • The case of Alexander Blok : marriage, genealogy, degeneration
  • Blok's femme fatale : history as palimpsest
  • Transcending gender : the case of Zinaida Gippius
  • Religious philosophical meetings : celibacy contra marriage
  • Vasilii Rozanov : the case of an amoral procreationist.

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