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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1999.
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Series: | Russian literature and thought.
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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