A01=Yuri Druzhnikov
Alexander Pushkin
Author_Yuri Druzhnikov
Baltic Project
Boris Godunov
Brother Sergey
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Common Language
Count Nesselrode
Count Vorontsov
cultural appropriation studies
Decembrist Uprising
Dorpat University
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Eugene Onegin
exile and emigration
Face To Face
General Yermolov
Gypsy Band
Ilya Druzhnikov
Ivan Ivanovich
Ivan Turgenev
Kishinev prisoner
Llya Druzhnikov
Mikhail Pogodin
Nikolay Gogol
nineteenth-century Russian society
official canonization
Peter III
Pskov Province
Pure Atheism
Pushkin emigration political context
Pushkin's Poem
Pushkin's Time
Pushkin's works
Pushkin’s Poem
Pushkin’s Time
Russian cultural politics
Russian literary history
Secretary Of State
Slavic intellectual history
Soviet cultural politics
Soviet regime
Thomas Moore
Tsarskoye Selo
Vasily Zhukovsky
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781560003908
- Weight: 793g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799û1837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the Soviet regime. In Prisoner of Russia, Yuri Druzhnikov analyzes the distortions and misrepresentations of Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes toward Russia and Western Europe.Druzhnikov's semi-biographical narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia after his graduation from the Lyceum, through his period of exile, until his early death in a duel in 1837. The matter of emigration from Russia was a politically charged issue well before 1917; witness the hostile reception of all of Turgenev's novels from Fathers and Sons on. The emigrÚ artist's cultural context is often used to assess his authenticity and stature as seen in the Western examples of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, or James Joyce. Druzhnikov sharply criticizes the omnipresent and reductive tendency in Russia (and the West) to define Russian cultural figures in terms of absolute essences and ideologies and to ignore the ambivalences that in fact help to define a writer's singularity. In the larger view, he argues, it is these that explain the variety and complexity of Russian culture.Druzhnikov's multidisciplinary approach combines literary and political history, with critical commentary arranged in chronological sequence. His interpretive apparatus ranges widely through nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and provides the necessary intellectual context for nonspecialist readers. He also avoids the massive accumulation of trivial detail characteristic of so much Pushkinology. This accessible, valuable exercise in cultural history will be of interest to Slavic scholars and students, cultural historians, and general readers interested in Russian literature and culture.
