Thomas Seifrid

Staging the Absolute

Ritual in Russia's Modern Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781487551803
• ISBN-10: 1487551800
• Artikelnr.: 67739224

Autorenporträt

By Thomas Seifrid

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Narratives of Intervention and the Culture of Space in the Early
Twentieth Century
2. Faust and the Medieval Roots of Intervention
3. Modernist Dreams of Intervention
4. Rituals of Intervention in the Early Soviet Era
5. Stalinist Ritual and the Impulse toward Judgment
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index