Creating the empress : : politics and poetry in the age of Catherine II / / Vera Proskurina.
In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine...
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| Superior document: | Ars Rossika |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ars Rossika.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Coup d'etat as Cross-dressing
- Chapter Two Astraea's coming to the Russian Throne
- Chapter Three Catherine the Healer
- Chapter Four Toppling the Bronze Horseman
- Chapter Five The War in Greek Garb
- Chapter Six The Birth of Felitsa
- Chapter Seven Politics as Carnival in Derzhavin's Ode to Fortune
- Chapter Eight Ridiculing the Monarch
- Bibliography
- Index.