Terror and Pity : : Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia / / 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 Ale...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Imperial Encounters in Russian History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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