By Alexei Lalo
A lot of the former scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism within the Silver Age used to be equipped on using ecu theoretical types (from psychoanalysis to feminist idea) to Russia's modernization. This publication argues that, on the develop into the 20th century, Russian pop culture for the 1st time came upon itself in direct disagreement with the conventional excessive cultures of the higher periods and intelligentsia, generating modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian culture of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed through literary heritage, emerges as what Foucault could name a full-blown bio-history of Russian tradition: a heritage of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized physique able to innovation by itself phrases, not only these by-product from Europe.
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38 chapter one three pairs of slender female legs” (ccccc cc ccccc; cccccc cccc / ccccccc cc c cccccc ccccc / ccc cccc cccccccc ccccccc ccc). The poem’s narrator also reveals his desire to touch his undisclosed beloved’s legs with his lips (ccccccc cccccc 22, 23). ” The on-going argument about Pushkin’s use of sexual metaphors, however, also documents in its own way the problems faced by wouldbe elite Russian authors in crafting a literature that could be assessed as Russian and as applicable to a broad range of human experience, as was being thematized in the Western literatures of the era.
Have fallen in love with fleshly plumpness (cccccccc cccccccc) and defijiled our iconpainting. Our Christ the Lord is all about the subtle feelings (ccccccccc ccccccc cccc), just as the theologians have taught us. One must see God’s Word on the Blessed Virgin, and the images must be presented according to John Chrysostomos: not even remotely similar to what the current heretics are thinking about. And this is all that bastard Nikon, our foe, has fancied that they all should be painted as if alive; he’s been rearranging everything in the Italian way, that is, in the German one.
Indeed, to use a mixture of Foucault’s and Weber’s terms, even a model for conversation on sex matters between the priest and his “spiritual progeny” has never existed. 8 One can only recall such TV anchors and “politologists” as Mikhail Leontiev, Gleb Pavlovsky, Aleksandr Dugin, Sergei Markov and many others who are in charge of the proKremlin propaganda in Putin’s Russia. Not all of them have unkempt looks, of course, but their anti-Western rhetoric never lacks demagogy and aggressiveness. carnality and eroticism in russian literature 31 Any radical anti-carnality was suppressed within the Church and replaced by the figure of silence.