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 - wr...

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מחבר ראשי: Evdokimova, Svetlana
פורמט: ספר
שפה:English
יצא לאור: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1999.
סדרה:Russian literature and thought
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תוכן הענינים:
  • Introduction: History, Fiction, and the Complementarity of Narrative Representations
  • pt. I. History and national identity. 1. The Impediments of Russian History. 2. Chance and Historical Necessity
  • pt. II. History and narrative. 3. The Historian as Contextualist: Pushkin's Polemic with Radishchev. 4. History in the Service and Disservice of Life: "The Hero"
  • pt. III. Petra scandali: pushkin confronts peter the great. 5. Forging Russian History: The Blackamoor of Peter the Great. 6. Poltava: The Myth of Holy War. 7. History as Myth: The Bronze Horseman.