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- Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
summary
In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Here we see how the play marks a sharp break with the Decembrists and Pushkin's own youthful liberalism, signaling its author's emergence as a Russian conservative. Boris Godunov, Clayton argues, can be best understood as an ideologically conservative defense of autocracy.
Sure to shock readers even as it persuades them, Dimitry's Shade reveals, incarnated in Boris Godunov, those three elements that were to become the slogan of Nicholas's Russia in the 1830s: autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality.
Sure to shock readers even as it persuades them, Dimitry's Shade reveals, incarnated in Boris Godunov, those three elements that were to become the slogan of Nicholas's Russia in the 1830s: autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality.
Table of Contents
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- Notes to the Reader
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xiii
- Chapter Five: The Montage of Genres
- pp. 100-121
- Chapter Eight: Poet and Tsar
- pp. 165-176
- Works Cited
- pp. 201-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810121652
Related ISBN(s)
9780810119383
MARC Record
OCLC
794701026
Pages
234
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No