Creating the empress : politics and poetry in the age of Catherine II

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

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...

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Main Author: Proskurina, V. I︠U︡
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2011
Series:Ars Rossika.
Subjects:
Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796 > In literature.
Politics and literature > Russia > History > 18th century.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Russian poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
Symbolism in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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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