Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II by Proskurina, Vera

Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618118059)

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Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II by Proskurina, Vera

Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II

$35.00
Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II by Proskurina, Vera

Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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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 (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.

Author: Vera Proskurina
ISBN-10: 1618118056
ISBN-13: 9781618118059
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2018
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d
By Vera Proskurina
By Vera Proskurina
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Vera J. Proskurina (Ph.D., Moscow State University) is a lecturer in Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures department at Emory University. She is the author of two books and sixty articles on Russian literature and the intellectual history of Russia. Her first book, Mikhail Gershenzon: his Life and Myth (1998) was devoted to the Jewish Russian writer and thinker of the first decades of the 20th century. Her second book, Myths of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II, first appeared in Moscow in 2006.

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