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Formalists against Imperialism : <em>The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar</em> and Russian Orientalism /

"In January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian formalist writer Yuri Tyni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aydinyan, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Colonial Management of Transcaucasia and the Ideas of the European Enlightenment
  • Colonial Management of Transcaucasia and the Ideas of the European Enlightenment
  • A Novelistic Outline of Orientalism
  • "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray": The Harem of the Russian Empire
  • Infant Asia and Stenka Razin: Persia in the Works of the Soviet Avant-Garde
  • The "Treacherous Eunuch": Search for Authenticity
  • An Iranian Delegation's Visit to Petersburg in 1829 and Its Interpretation in 1929
  • The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar as a Parody of a Spy Novel.