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Excerpt From Novel "The Tale Is Fresh" By I. Grekova, Translated By Sibelan Forrester, I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
Excerpt From Novel "The Tale Is Fresh" By I. Grekova, Translated By Sibelan Forrester, I. Grekova, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
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The Occulted Woman In Russian Silver Age Decadent Poetry, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
The Occulted Woman In Russian Silver Age Decadent Poetry, Sibelan E.S. Forrester
Russian Faculty Works
The article outlines the cultural context of Russian women who contributed to the development of decadent poetry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most now forgotten or “occulted” (eclipsed, crowded out). Given the importance of gender theories and “feminine” discursive space in the Silver Age, this phenomenon must be examined; it is not just a typical example of women written out of literary history. The article suggests reasons why decadence may have appealed to women as well as why Russian women who adopted a specifically decadent position might not have been taken seriously. It ends by suggesting why …