Preserving Petersburg : History, Memory, Nostalgia / edited by Helena Goscilo and Stephen M. Norris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norris, Stephen M.

Goscilo, Helena, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Civilization.

Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--In literature.

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2008.

Summary:

"Goscilo and Norris' innovative anthology provides Slavic scholars with a panoramic view of the city's literary, pictorial and social manifestations." - Europe-Asia Studies For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation, a literal and imaginative place where Russians can commune with idealized pasts. Preserving Petersburg represents a significant departure from traditional representations. By moving beyond the "Petersburg text" created by canonized writers and artists, the contributors to this engrossing volume trace the ways in which St. Petersburg has become a "museum piece, " embodying history, nostalgia, and recourse to memories of the past. The essays in this attractively illustrated volume trace a process of preservation that stretches back nearly three centuries, as manifest in the works of noted historians, poets, novelists, artists, architects, filmmakers, and dramatists. "The collection truly sparkles as the contributors each in turn take up this snuff box of a city... and breathe movement and life into the idealized Petersburg museum." -Gregory Stroud, Bennington College "This collection brings together history, literature, architecture, and the politics of memory." - Choice "An interesting and important contribution to existing scholarship on St. Petersburg's myth, cult, and text... this volume is distinctive." -Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Columbia University "A truly innovative contribution to the scholarship on Petersburg... The volume should be read by all serious Slavic scholars." -Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma

Contents:

Introduction / Helena Goscilo and Stephen M. Norris

St. Petersburg and the art of survival / William Craft Brumfield

The city's memory: texts of preservation and loss in imperial St. Petersburg / Julie Buckler

Unsaintly St. Petersburg? visions and visuals / Helena Goscilo

A tale of two cities: ancient Rome and St. Petersburg in Mandelstam's poetry / Zara Torlone

Petersburg in the poetry of the Russian emigration / Vladimir Khazan

Multiethnic St. Petersburg: the late imperial period / Steven Duke

Leningrad culture under siege (1941-1944) / Cynthia Simmons

Cultural capital and cultural heritage: St. Petersburg and the arts of imperial Russia

Richard stites

Strolls through postmodern Petersburg: celebrating the city in 2003 / Stephen M. Norris.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253027894

0253027896

OCLC:

1016843441