Author(s): Jenifer Presto
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 352
Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction Beyond the Flesh: Russian Symbolism and the Sublimation of Sex......Page 22
I. Poetry against Progeny: Blok and the Problem of Poetic Reproduction......Page 38
1. Unbearable Burdens: Blok and the Modernist Resistance to Progeny......Page 40
2. Recurring Nightmares: Blok, Freud, and the Specter of Die Ahnfrau......Page 60
3. Reproductive Fantasies: Blok and the Creation of The Italian Verses......Page 89
4. A Time of Troubles: Blok and the Disruption of Poetic Succession......Page 125
II. Writing against the Body: Gippius and the Problem of Lyric Embodiment......Page 152
5. Style “Femme”: Gippius and the Resistance to Feminine Writing......Page 154
6. The Dandy’s Gaze: Gippius and Disdainful Desire forthe Feminine......Page 179
7. Eternal Feminine Problems: Gippius, Blok, and the Incarnationof the Ideal......Page 209
8. Body Trouble: Gippius and the Staging of an Anatomy of Criticism......Page 236
Afterword - The Return of the Repressed: Illegitmate Babies and an Unwieldy Body......Page 260
Notes......Page 11
Index......Page 336
