1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466728703321

Autore

Morris Marcia A. <1952->

Titolo

Writing the time of troubles : false dmitry in Russian literature / / Marcia A. Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-61811-864-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Collana

Unknown nineteenth century

Disciplina

891.709/35847045

Soggetti

Kings and rulers in literature

Russian literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The history of a story -- Permutations: victim, villain, scavenger --  Trauerspiel and counterhistory in a time of palace coups -- The rebel, the sycophant, and the epigones -- Arbitrariness and expedience meet legality, or the fatal flaws of the well-tempered autocrat -- The fin de siecle's diminished Dmitrys -- Conclusions and reintroductions: the re-resurrection of tsarevich Dmitry.

Sommario/riassunto

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia's doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.