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.”
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
336 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Academic Studies Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2016-06-16 |
| ISBN |
9781618114723 |
