Title The poetics of impudence and intimacy in the age of Pushkin / Joe Peschio

Published Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Contents Roots and Contexts ; The Semantics and Etymology of Misbehavior ; Contexts : Domesticity, Society, State ; The Verse Shalost' -- Arzamas : Rudeness ; Like Talk ; Rudeness and Domesticity in the Arzamasian Letters -- The Green Lamp : Sexual Banter ; Arkadii Rodzianko's "Ligurinus" ; Del'vig's "Fanni" and Del'vig's Shack -- Ruslan and Liudmila : Rudeness and Sexual Banter ; Sexual Banter and Eroticism in Ruslan and Liudmila ; "Blush, You Wretch!" : Rudeness in Ruslan and Liudmila and Its Impact on Youth Culture -- Epilogue : Pushkin the Pornographer, Two Hundred Years Later Summary In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of genres: the friendly verse epistle, the burlesque, the epigram, the comic narrative poem, the prose parody. In a period marked by the Decembrist Uprising and heightened state scrutiny into private life, these activities were hardly considered frivolous; such works and the domestic, insular spaces within which they were created could be seen by the Russian state as rebellious, at times even treasonous. This book is a history of the set of associated behaviors known in Russian as “shalosti,” a word which at the time could refer to provocative behaviors like practical joking, insubordination, ritual humiliation, or vandalism, among other things, but also to literary manifestations of these behaviors such as the use of obscenities in poems, impenetrably obscure allusions, and all manner of literary inside jokes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Criticism and interpretation Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 Arzamas (Literary circle) Arzamas (Literary circle) Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Russian wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union. Russian literature Russian wit and humor Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012010173 ISBN 0299290441 9780299290443 9781299192317 1299192319 9780299290436 0299290433

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