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Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia

Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sumarokov and the Theater of Power in Elizabethan Russia

Ospovat, Kirill

Hardcover

Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceTheater History

ISBN10: 1618114727
ISBN13: 9781618114723
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: May 31 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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