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Writing the Time of Troubles : False Dmitry in Russian literature /

Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Morris, Marcia A., 1952- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Collection:Unknown nineteenth century.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: The history of a story
  • Permutations: victim, villain, scavenger
  • Trauerspiel and counterhistory in a time of palace coups
  • The rebel, the sycophant, and the epigones
  • Arbitrariness and expedience meet legality, or the fatal flaws of the well-tempered autocrat
  • The fin de siecle's diminished Dmitrys
  • Conclusions and reintroductions: the re-resurrection of tsarevich Dmitry.