Writing the Time of Troubles : False Dmitry in Russian literature
Kings and rulers in literature Russian literature Literature Criticism, interpretation, etc e-böcker
Academic Studies Press
2018
EISBN 9781618118646
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.
Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.
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.
Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.
