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Creating the empress : politics and poetry in the age of Catherine II / Vera Proskurina.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Ars RossikaPublisher: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2011Description: 1 electronic resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781618119117
  • 1618119117
  • 9781618110091
  • 1618110098
  • 9781618116710
  • 1618116711
Uniform titles:
  • Mify imperii. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating the empressDDC classification:
  • 891.71/2093581222
LOC classification:
  • PG3065.C37
Online resources:
Contents:
Coup d'état as cross-dressing -- Astraea's coming to the Russian throne -- Catherine the healer -- Toppling the Bronze horseman -- The war in Greek garb -- The birth of Felitsa -- Politics as carnival in Derzhavin's Ode to fortune -- Ridiculing the monarch.
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Summary: In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, et cetera), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. The book allows for the viewing of these themes and motifs not only in the immediate historical context of Catherine II's reign, but also in the context of the broader European symbolic traditions. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (as well as some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images. --From publisher's description.
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Originally published in Russian as: Mify imperii : literatura i vlastʹ v ėpochu Ekateriny II.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Coup d'état as cross-dressing -- Astraea's coming to the Russian throne -- Catherine the healer -- Toppling the Bronze horseman -- The war in Greek garb -- The birth of Felitsa -- Politics as carnival in Derzhavin's Ode to fortune -- Ridiculing the monarch.

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In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, et cetera), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. The book allows for the viewing of these themes and motifs not only in the immediate historical context of Catherine II's reign, but also in the context of the broader European symbolic traditions. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (as well as some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images. --From publisher's description.

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