Terror and Pity Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia.
Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Imported to Russia by Ale...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Academic Studies Pr
2016.
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| Col·lecció: | Imperial encounters in Russian history.
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Taula de continguts:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. POLITICAL THEATER AND THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN TRAGIC DRAMA
- PART II. KHOREV, OR THE TRAGEDY OF ORIGIN
- PART III. POETIC JUSTICE: COUP D'ÉTAT, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND THE POLITICS OF SPECTACLE IN THE RUSSIAN HAMLET
- EPILOGUE. THE THEATER OF WAR AND PEACE: THE "MIRACLE OF THE HOUSE OF BRANDENBURG" AND THE POETICS OF EUROPEAN ABSOLUTISM
- CONCLUSION: TRAGEDY, HISTORY, AND THEORY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX