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The imperial script of Catherine the Great : governing with the literary pen / Vera Proskurina.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural revolutions : Russia in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuriesPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9798887191782
  • 9798887191775
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperial script of Catherine the GreatDDC classification:
  • 891.78/209 23/eng/20230320
LOC classification:
  • PG3311.C3 P76 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
The landscape of the empire : the antidote of Catherine II, or the borders of European civilization -- Barbaric capital : laughter during the plague -- The poetics of prototypes : the political contexts of the fairy tales of Catherine II -- Territory of freedom : dispute by the palace walls -- "Light from the East" : Catherine II in a fight against Freemasonry -- Catherine's imperial stride : The Greek project on the theatrical scene.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The landscape of the empire : the antidote of Catherine II, or the borders of European civilization -- Barbaric capital : laughter during the plague -- The poetics of prototypes : the political contexts of the fairy tales of Catherine II -- Territory of freedom : dispute by the palace walls -- "Light from the East" : Catherine II in a fight against Freemasonry -- Catherine's imperial stride : The Greek project on the theatrical scene.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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