Proskurina The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

Governing with the Literary Pen
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 979-888719177-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Ars Rossica

This is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Proskurina, Vera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Landscape of the Empire: The Antidote of Catherine II, or the Borders of European Civilization2. Barbaric Capital: Laughter during the Plague3. The Poetics of Prototypes: The Political Contexts of the Fairy Tales of Catherine II4. Territory of Freedom: Dispute by the Palace Walls5. “Light from the East”: Catherine II in a Fight against Freemasonry6. Catherine’s Imperial Stride: The Greek Project on the Theatrical SceneBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Proskurina, Vera
Dr. Vera Proskurina currently works at Emory University. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on Russian literature and the intellectual history of Russia. Her first book, Mikhail Gershenzon: his Life and Myth (1998), was devoted to the Jewish writer and thinker in the first decades of the 20th century. Her next books related to the culture & political symbolism of the 18th century: Myth of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II (2006), Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (2011), Catherine II’s Empire of Letters: Literature as Politics (2017).

Proskurina Vera:
Dr. Vera Proskurina currently works at Emory University. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on Russian literature and the intellectual history of Russia. Her first book, Mikhail Gershenzon: his Life and Myth (1998), was devoted to the Jewish writer and thinker in the first decades of the 20th century. Her next books related to the culture & political symbolism of the 18th century: Myth of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II (2006), Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (2011), Catherine II’s Empire of Letters: Literature as Politics (2017).Dr. Vera Proskurina currently works at Emory University. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on Russian literature and the intellectual history of Russia. Her first book, Mikhail Gershenzon: his Life and Myth (1998), was devoted to the Jewish writer and thinker in the first decades of the 20th century. Her next books related to the culture & political symbolism of the 18th century: Myth of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II (2006), Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (2011), Catherine II’s Empire of Letters: Literature as Politics (2017).