Vera Proskurina

The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

Governing with the Literary Pen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an all-embracing review of Catherine's entire literary output, which consists of works in multiple genres and languages. The Russian empress's writings have been the repeated subject of serious analysis for nineteenth- and twentieth-century researchers; all of these in one way or another demonstrate that across a variety of genres and formats, with a greater or lesser degree of independence and originality, the literary works of Catherine II always express her politics and ideology. If Catherine's policy had the transfer of imperial power to Russia, a kind of translatio imperii, as its strategic goal, then the literary and cultural accomplishments of the empress had to establish a translatio studii, that is, the transfer of the Roman cultural paradigm, knowledge, and civilization onto Russian soil. This book will be devoted to an analysis of these paradigms as they emerged between Catherine II's creations on the page and in the empire itself"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9798887191768
• Artikelnr.: 68112170

Autorenporträt

Dr. Vera Proskurina currently works at Emory University. She is the author of several books and numerous 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 writer and thinker in the first decades of the 20th century. Her next books related to the culture & political symbolism of the 18th century: Myth of Empire: Politics and Literature in the Time of Catherine II (2006), Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (2011), Catherine II's Empire of Letters: Literature as Politics (2017).