Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin De Siecle Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin De Siecle Book

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. 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 desire underlay their most radical utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence.Read More

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  • 029920880X
  • 9780299208806
  • Olga Matich
  • 27 July 2005
  • University of Wisconsin Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 354
  • illustrated edition
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