Pushkin's historical imagination /

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history-writings t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evdokimova, Svetlana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.
Series:Russian literature and thought.
Subjects:
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, > 1799-1837.
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, > 1799-1837
Pouchkine, Aleksandr Sergueevitch, > (1799-1837) > Critique et interprétation.
Pouchkine, Aleksandr Sergueevitch, > (1799-1837) > Et l'histoire.
History in literature.
Histoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
History in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. History, Fiction, and the Complementarity of Narrative Representations
  • Part I. History And National Identity
  • One. The Impediments of Russian History
  • Two. Chance and Historical Necessity
  • Part II. History and Narrative
  • Three. The Historian as Contextualist: Pushkin's Polemic with Radishchev
  • Four. History in the Service and Disservice of Life: "The Hero"
  • Part III. Petra Scandali: Pushkin Confronts Peter the Great
  • Five. Forging Russian History: The Blackamoor of Peter the Great
  • Six. Poltava: The Myth of Holy War
  • Seven. History as Myth: The Bronze Horseman
  • AFTERWORD
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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