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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.
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.