Pushkin's Historical Imagination (Paperback)

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writings on the subject of history-writings that have strongly influenced Russians' views of themselves and their past. Through new readings of his drama, Boris Godunov, such narrative poems as Poltava, The Bronze Horseman, and Count Nulin; prose fiction, including The Captain's Daughter and Blackamoor of Peter and the Great; lyrical poems; and a variety of nonfictional texts, the author presents Pushkin not only as a progenitor of Russian national mythology but also as an original historical and political thinker. Evdokimova considers Pushkin within the context of Romantic historiography and addresses the tension between Pushkin the historian and Pushkin the fiction writer. She also discusses Pushkin's ideas on the complex relations between chance and necessity in historical processes, on the particular significance of great individuals in Russian history, and on the historical truth.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Russian Literature and Thought Series
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	September 2011
Authors:	Svetlana Evdokimova
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-18190-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-300-18190-6
Barcode:	9780300181906

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