Erotic Utopia

The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin De Siecle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av Olga Matich

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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, by metaphysical and physical means. They intertwined their mystical erotic discourse with European degeneration theory and its obsession with the destabilization of gender. In Erotic Utopia, Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desires underlay their most radical utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence. The author focuses on the later works of Tolstoy, Vladimir Solov'ev, Zinaida Gippius, Alexander Blok, and Vasilii Rozanov, whose writings are situated in the Russian as well as European fin de siecle.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-07-08
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor354
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299208806

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"No historian of literature has looked at turn-of-the-century Russia in the perspective found in Olga Matich’s groundbreaking study."—Yuri Tsivian, professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Art History, and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago"In examining the biographies, images, programs, and writings of these ‘decadent utopians,’ the author illuminates, with an enlightened specificity and openness long overdue in Russian studies, the productive intersection between psychopathology and modernism. Erotic Utopia makes a theoretically exciting and richly informative contribution to our understanding of fin-de-siècle tsarist culture and its dreams and discontents."—Beth Holmgren, chair and professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“Richly illustrated and thought provoking, this book resembles no other.”—Choice