Tsar and God and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics /

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Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Uspenskiĭ, Boris Andreevich
Other Authors: Zhivov, V. M., Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-, Budgen, D. (David), Bliss, Liv
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Ruso
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
Series:Ars Rossika.
Subjects:
Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia > History.
Orthodox Eastern Church > History.
Église orthodoxe > Histoire.
Orthodox Eastern Church
1689-1801
Semiotics > Russia > Religious aspects.
Religion and culture > Russia.
Language and culture > Russia.
Religion et culture > Russie.
Langage et culture > Russie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Language and culture
Religion
Religion and culture
Semiotics > Religious aspects
Kultursemiotik
Kulturelles System
Russia > Religion > History.
Russia > History > 1689-1801.
Russie > Histoire > 1689-1801.
Russia
Russland
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tsar and God : semiotic aspects of the sacralization of the monarch in Russia / B.A. Uspenskij and V.M. Zhivov. The sacralization of the monarch in the context of historical and cultural development ; The sacralization of the monarch as a semiotic process ; The civil cult of the monarch in the system of Baroque culture ; Conclusions ; Notes
  • Tsar and pretender : Samozvanchestvo or royal imposture in Russia as a cultural-historical phenomenon / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
  • Enthronement in the Russian and Byzantine traditions / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
  • Europe as a metaphor and metonymy (in relation to the history of Russia) / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
  • Cultural reforms in Peter's I's system of transformations / V.M. Zhivov. Cultural reforms and semiotic propaganda ; Innovations in church ritual ; The civil cult ; Parody and blasphemy as rituals of the public sphere ; Blasphemy in the paradigm of the new power ; Concluding remarks ; Notes
  • The myth of the state in the Age of Enlightenment and its destruction in late eighteenth-century Russia / V.M. Zhivov ; Notes.

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