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Prof. Marcus C. Levitt, Ladomir
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Southern California


Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture /
Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul'ture

Edited by Marcus C. Levitt and Andrei L. Toporkov
In the series: "Russkaia potaennaia literatura."

Moscow: Ladomir, 1999. 700 pages; 29 color illustrations, 161 b/w
illustrations.

A collection of articles in English and in Russian by international
scholars, based on the May, 1998, Conference at the University of Southern
California.

All articles in Russian have resumes in English, and vice versa.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Dianne E. Farrell, The Bawdy Lubok: Sexual and Scatological Content in 18th
C. Russian Popular Prints;
N. L. Pushkareva, Russkie lubochnye kartinki XVII - XX vv. - nachalo
pornografii ili otrazhenie narodnyh eroticheskikh vozzrenii?;
A. L. Toporkov, Russkie lyubovnye zagovory XIX veka; V. L. Klyaus, Coitus v
russkikh narodnykh pesniakh: opyt analiz atributsii; Eve Levin, Pornography
Before Pornography;
A. V. Kulagina, Russkaia eroticheskaia chastushka; Prilozhenie: 327
chastushek iz kollektsii A. D. Volkova; Prilozhenie: A. D. Volkov, <<Zametki
sobiratelia>>;
K. K. Loginov, Elementy <<porno>> v narodnoi kul'ture russkikh Karelii;
James L. Rice, Kirsha's Bawdy Song Again, and Again;
Manfred Schruba, K spetsifike barkoviany na fone frantsuzskoi pornografii;
Marcus C. Levitt, Barkoviana and Russian Classicism;
John T. Alexander, Catherine the Great as Porn Queen;
Larry Wolff, The Fantasy of Catherine in the Fiction of the Enlightenment:
From Baron Munchausen to the Marquis de Sade;
Laura Wilhelm, Pornography and the Politics of Oppression in the Russian
Aesopian Tradition;
Vera Proskurina, Vasilii Rozanov's Erotic Mythology; Alexander Etkind, Is
there Pleasure in Suffering? Contexts of Desire from Masoch to Kuzmin;
Otto Boele, The Pornographic Roman a These: Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin;
Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis, Jr., A Note on Konstantin Somov's Erotic
Book Illustration;
L. B. Bessmertnykh, Bibliograficheskaia zametka po povodu izdanii 'Knigi
Markizy' K. Somova;
Amy Mandelker, The Sacred and the Profane: Tolstoy's Aesthetics and
Pornography;
Evgenii Bershtein, <<Psychopathia sexualis>> v Rossii nachala veka: politika
i zhanr;
Frances L. Bernstein, Doctors and the Problem of "Sexy Science" in the
1920s;
Paul W. Goldschmidt, Article 242: Past, Present, and Future;
I. S. Kon, Erotika i pornografiia v rossiiskih politicheskikh debatakh;
Helena Goscilo, Porn on the Cob: Some Hard Core Issues;
Karen Ryan, Misreading Misogyny: The Allegorical Functions of Russian Porn;
Emil Draitser, Contemporary Russian Jokelore as Pornography;
Eliot Borenstein, Masculinity and Nationalism in Contemporary Russian "Men's
Magazines";
Lesley Rimmel, Pornography in Russia Today: Men's Anxieties, Women's
Silences;
E. S. Efimova, Liubivnye motivy v sovremennom tiuremnom fol'klore;
Prilozhenie: Tiuremnaia poeziia.

The volume also includes color drawings from the unpublished archive of the
artist Ivan Semenovich Efimov (1878-1959), and extensive black and white
illustrations from the archive of L. V. Bessmertnykh.

The volume is available for purchase for $25 plus $3 postage ($5 postage
from outside of the U.S.). Send a check to:

Prof. Marcus C. Levitt, Ladomir
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353

From Europe, it may be easier for you to send the money by bank transfer. If
you would like to do this, contact me and I will send you instructions.

NB. The book has been reviewed in:
Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, vol. 3, March 27, 2000,
http://www.ejhs.org/volume3/book4.htm, (Annette Fuglsang Owens)
Russian Review 60: 1 (April 2001): 275-76. (Laura Engelstein)
Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue candienne des slavistes 42: 3 (Sept. 2000):
411-12 (Benjamin Sutcliffe)
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Ost europas, Heft 1 (2001): 136-137 (Mattias
Stadelmann)
Slavic and East European Journal , vol. 45, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 156- 58
(Jane Costlow)


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