Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations

Contents

vii Con­ tents Fore­ word: The Power of the Word and the Turn to Taboo xi Caryl Emer­ son Ac­ knowl­ edg­ ments xvii Note on Transliteration and Translation xix Intro­ duc­ tion: Be­ yond Push­ kin as Dogma 3­ Alyssa Di­ nega Gil­ les­ pie Part 1: Ta­ boos in Con­ text Push­ kin the Tit­ u­ lar Coun­ cilor 41 Irina Re­ yf­ man Why Push­ kin Did Not Be­ come a De­ cem­ brist 60 Igor Nem­ i­ rov­ sky Light­ ing the Green Lamp: Un­ pub­ lished and Un­ known Poems 84 Joe Pes­ chio Push­ kin and Met­ ro­ pol­ i­ tan Phi­ la­ ret: Re­ think­ ing the Prob­ lem 112 Oleg Pro­ sku­ rin viii Contents Part 2: Taboo Writ­ ings If Only Push­ kin Had Not Writ­ ten This Filth: The Shade of Bar­ kov and Phil­ o­ log­ i­ cal ­ Cover-ups 159 Igor Pilsh­ chi­ kov Bawdy and Soul: ­ Pushkin’s Poet­ ics of Ob­ scen­ ity 185­ Alyssa Di­ nega Gil­ les­ pie Re­ sex­ ing Lit­ er­ a­ ture: Tsar Ni­ kita and His Forty Daugh­ ters 224 J. Doug­ las Clay­ ton and Na­ talia Ves­ se­ lova The Poet­ ics of Dry Trans­ gres­ sion in ­ Pushkin’s Necro-Erotic Verse 239 Jon­ a­ than ­ Brooks Platt The Blas­ phe­ mies of The Ga­ brie­ liad 261 An­ drew Kahn Pol­ i­ tics and ­ Poetry: The “Anti-Polish” Poems and “I built my­ self a mon­ u­ ment not made by human hands” 283 Katya Ho­ kan­ son Part 3: Taboo Read­ ings Taboo and the Fam­ ily Ro­ mance in The ­ Captain’s Daugh­ ter 321 David M. ­ Bethea­ Through the Lens of So­ viet Psycho­ anal­ y­ sis and Uto­ pian ­ Dreams of the 1920s: Ivan ­ Ermakov’s Read­ ings of ­ Pushkin’s ­ Poetry 350 Alex­ an­ dra Smith The Red Push­ kin and the ­ Writers’ Union in 1937: Pre­ scrip­ tion and Taboo 378 Carol Any­ Krzhizhanovsky’s Push­ kin in the 1930s: The Cle­ o­ pa­ tra Myth from Femme Fa­ tale to Roman Farce 402 Caryl Emer­ son Contents ix Se­ lected Bib­ liog­ ra­ phy 437 Con­ trib­ u­ tors 441 Index 445 ...