A Hero of Our Time
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Sumarokov
Andrei Sinyavsky
Anna Akhmatova
Author_Julie A. Buckler
Bathos
Boris Akunin
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Catherine the Great
Classicism
Crime and Punishment
Cultural history
Culture and Society
D. S. Mirsky
Dacha
Dead Souls
Edgar Allan Poe
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Feuilleton
George Eliot
Gothic Revival architecture
Henry Mayhew
Intelligentsia
John Stow
Joseph Brodsky
Literary realism
Literature
Marquis de Custine
Martin Chuzzlewit
Melodrama
Memoir
Metonymy
Mikhail Bakhtin
Narrative
Neoclassical architecture
Nevsky Prospect
Newspaper
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Leskov
Nostalgia
Oblomov
On the Eve
Osip Mandelstam
Palace Square
Parody
Picturesque
Poetry
Potboiler
Preservationist
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Prose
Raznochintsy
Rococo
Romanticism
Russian architecture
Russian culture
Russian literature
Superiority (short story)
The Bronze Horseman (poem)
The Goths
The Idiot
The Machine in the Garden
Tsarskoye Selo
Urban legend
V.
Vissarion Belinsky
Vladimir Odoyevsky
Vladimir Stasov
Winter Palace
Woe from Wit
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130323
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast uncharted territory in between. In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system--a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it. By favoring noncanonical works and "underdescribed spaces," Buckler seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St. Petersburg--with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives--to offer an off-center view of a richer, less familiar urban landscape. She views this grand city, the product of Peter the Great's ambitious vision, not only as a geographical entity but also as a network of genres that carries historical and cultural meaning.
We discover the busy, messy "middle ground" of this hybrid city through an intricate web of descriptions in literary works; nonfiction writings such as sketches, feuilletons, memoirs, letters, essays, criticism; and urban legends, lore, songs, and social practices--all of which add character and depth to this refurbished imperial city.
Julie Buckler is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia".
