Terror and Pity : : Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia / / Kirill Ospovat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Ospovat, Kirill,
• Author: Ospovat, Kirill,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618114730; 9783110688160
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618114730
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kirill Ospovat.

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 Aleksandr Sumarokov around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of "absolutist" autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and "new historicism" in order to contribute to a broader discussion of early modern "poetics of culture."