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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2018.
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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.