"'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia": ASEEES Panel

[Evgenii Bershtein]

Dear Colleagues,
I  would like to organize an ASEEES panel, provisionally named " 'Pushkin
and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in
Russia". We have two papers so far: one on Yuri Lotman's unpublished
"sketch of an essay" entitled "Pushkin and Homosexuality", and another
(mine) on Sergei Eisenstein's extensive treatment of this theme in his
(unpublished) diaries. As I see it,  the panel will  focus not so much on
the historical Pushkin and his actual take on homosexuality but rather on
interpretations that this theme received in Russian cultural texts –
scholarly or non-scholarly. This panel topic has many potentially
fascinating aspects,  e.g., the Pushkinist legend of the homosexual
relationship between Heeckeren and d'Anthés, or  заговор педерастов.

If you would like to propose a paper, please email me off the list with a
brief abstract.

Sincerely,

Evgenii Bershtein

Associate Professor of Russian
Reed College

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