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Terror and Pity : Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia / Kirill Ospovat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ospovat, Kirill, Author.
- Series:
- Imperial encounters in Russian history.
- Imperial Encounters in Russian History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich, 1717-1777--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich.
- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich, 1717-1777.
- Russian drama (Tragedy)--18th century--History and criticism.
- Russian drama (Tragedy).
- Theater--Political aspects--Russia--History--18th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Russia--History--18th century.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia offers an in-depth reading of early Russian tragedy as a political genre. Imported to Russia by Aleksandr Sumarokov around 1750, tragedy reenacted and shaped the symbolic economy and the often disturbing historical experience of "absolutist" autocracy. Addressing half-forgotten texts and events, this study engages with literary and cultural theory from Walter Benjamin to Foucault and "new historicism" in order to contribute to a broader discussion of early modern "poetics of culture."
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. POLITICAL THEATER AND THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN TRAGIC DRAMA
- PART II. KHOREV, OR THE TRAGEDY OF ORIGIN
- PART III. POETIC JUSTICE: COUP D'ÉTAT, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND THE POLITICS OF SPECTACLE IN THE RUSSIAN HAMLET
- EPILOGUE. THE THEATER OF WAR AND PEACE: THE "MIRACLE OF THE HOUSE OF BRANDENBURG" AND THE POETICS OF EUROPEAN ABSOLUTISM
- CONCLUSION: TRAGEDY, HISTORY, AND THEORY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-473-5
- OCLC:
- 951835669
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