By fables alone
Subtitle: literature and state ideology in late-eighteenth--early-nineteenth-century Russia
By: Andrei Zorin ; translations by Marcus C. Levitt with Nicole Monnier and Daniel Schlaffy
Contributors: Levitt, Marcus C., 1954- translator
Series: Ars Rossica; Ars Rossika
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Brighton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781618113467
Subjects: Intellectual life; History and criticism; Politics and literature; Russian literature; Ideology and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Russians and Greeks : Catherine II's "Greek Project" and the Russian ode of the 1760s-70s; title: The image of the enemy : V. P. Petrov's "Ode on the conclusion of peace with the Ottoman Porte" and the emergence of the mythology of a global conspiracy against Russia; title: Eden in Taurus : the "Crimean myth" in Russian culture of the 1780s-90s; title: Eden in the Tauride Palace : Potemkin's last project; title: The people's war : the time of troubles in Russian literature, 1806-1807; title: Enemy of the people : M.M. Speranskii's fall and the mythology of treason in social and literary consciousness, 1809-1812; title: War and quasi peace : the character and goal of the war in 1812-1814 in the interpretation of A.S. Shishkov and Archimandrite Filaret; title: Holy alliances : V.A. Zhukovskii's epistle "To Emperor Alexander" and Christian universalism; title: "Star of the east" : the holy alliance and European mysticism translation by Daniel Schlaffy; title: The cherished triad : S.S. Uvarov's memorandum of 1832 and the development of the doctrine "Orthodoxy-autocracy-nationality."