{"product_id":"9780299229535","title":"Beyond the Flesh: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex","description":"Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of two of the most important Russian Symbolists.             Jenifer Presto argues that the difficulties encountered in reading Alexander Blok and Zinaida Gippius within either a feminist or a traditional, binary gendered framework derive not only from the peculiarities of their creative personalities but also from the specific Russian cultural context. Although these two poets engaged in gendered practices that, at times, appeared to be highly idiosyncratic and even incited gossip among their contemporaries, they were not operating in a vacuum. Instead, they were responding to philosophical concepts that were central to Russian Symbolism and that would continue to shape modernism in Russia.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166185636080,"sku":"9780299229535","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299229535_p0.jpg?v=1763683443","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299229535","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}