Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations

Contents......Page 8
Foreword: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo - Caryl Emerson......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Note on Transliteration and Translation......Page 20
Introduction: Beyond Pushkin as Dogma - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
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Part 1: Taboos in Context......Page 60
Pushkin the Titular Councilor - Irina Reyfman......Page 62
Why Pushkin Did Not Become a Decembrist - Igor Nemirovsky......Page 81
Lighting the Green Lamp: Unpublished and Unknown Poems - Joe Peschio......Page 105
Pushkin and Metropolitan Philaret: Rethinking the Problem - Oleg Proskurin......Page 133
Part 2: Taboo Writings......Page 178
If Only Pushkin Had Not Written
This Filth: The Shade of Barkov and Philological Cover-ups - Igor Pilshchikov......Page 180
Bawdy and Soul: Pushkin’s Poetics of Obscenity - Alyssa Dinega Gillespie......Page 206
Resexing Literature: Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters - J. Douglas Clayton and Natalia Vesselova......Page 245
The Poetics of Dry Transgression in Pushkin’s Necro-Erotic Verse - Jonathan Brooks Platt......Page 260
The Blasphemies of The Gabrieliad - Andrew Kahn......Page 282
Politics and Poetry: The “Anti-Polish” Poems and “I built myself a monument not made by human hands” - Katya Hokanson......Page 304
Part 3: Taboo Readings......Page 340
Taboo and the Family Romance in The Captain’s Daughter- David M. Bethea......Page 342
Through the Lens of Soviet Psychoanalysis and Utopian Dreams of the 1920s: Ivan Ermakov’s Readings of Pushkin’s Poetry - Alexandra Smith......Page 371
The Red Pushkin and the Writers’ Union in 1937: Prescription and Taboo - Carol Any......Page 399
Krzhizhanovsky’s Pushkin in the 1930s: The Cleopatra Myth from Femme Fatale to Roman Farce - Caryl Emerson......Page 423
Selected Bibliography......Page 458
Contributors......Page 462
Index......Page 466