Myths of empire

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Proskurina, Vera

Mify Imperii

Literatura i Vlast` v Epokhu Ekateriny II

[ Myths of empire : Literature and power in the epoch of Catherine II]

Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006
323 p. [16 ill.]
Hardcover. 14 x 22 cm
ISBN: 5867934241
Language: Russian

This monograph shows how the images and plots of Antiquity, ancient myths were reinterpreted in the epoch of Catherine the Second and used to strengthen the empire and its ideology. Proskurina explores several myths about the Amazons, Astraea, Pallada, Fellicia, etc., and how they affirmed the imperial ideology and the monarch`s power in the visual arts and literature. The monograph also describes attempts to desacralize the monarch and empire in literature by Russian libertines, particularly by Ivan Krylov. Name index. Also available by the same author: Techenie Gol`fstrima: Mikhail Gershenzon, Ego Zhizn` i Mif (1998).

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» Literary Theory and Criticism / History of Literature » History of Literature

» History: General Works and Philosophy of History » Imperial Russia: 17th to the 19th Centuries

» Government and Politics » Power and Culture

» Social Thought and Philosophy

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