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Marcia A. Morris - Writing the Time of Troubles, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Writing the Time of Troubles

False Dmitry in Russian Literature

Av Marcia A. Morris

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Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia’s doom or a herald of progress?Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-06
  • Mått: 155 x 234 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 458 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 192
  • Förlag: Academic Studies Press
  • ISBN: 9781618118639
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Marcia A. Morris is Professor of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University. She is the author of Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in Russian Literature, The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia and Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia.

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“In this well-wrought book, Marcia Morris discusses the waysRussian writers have used the figure of False Dmitry to pose political,existential, and literary questions. … Morris argues that each writer’s approachto these questions expresses his relation to contemporaneous events as well ashis view of the distant past. The argument is framed by narrative theory andtrauma studies, and firmly grounded in studies of Russian history andliterature—the footnotes alone provide a detailed map of the book’s argument. …We owe Marcia Morris a debt of gratitude for reading, contextualizing, andanalyzing these works, including some that most of us would never encounterotherwise. This book is well worth reading.” —Sarah Pratt, University of SouthernCalifornia, Russian Review Vol. 78,No. 2

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