Mapping St. Petersburg (eBook)

Imperial Text and Cityshape

Julie A. Buckler (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18761-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: A Hero of Our Time • aleksandr solzhenitsyn • Alexander Herzen • Alexander Sumarokov • Amber Room • Andrei Sinyavsky • Anna Akhmatova • Baroque architecture • bathos • Boris Akunin • Catherine the Great • Charles Dickens • chivalric romance • Classicism • Claude Frollo • Crime and Punishment • Critias • Critical Essays (Orwell) • Cultural History • culture and society • dacha • dead souls • Denis Cosgrove • D. S. Mirsky • Edgar Allan Poe • etymology • Eugene Onegin • Feuilleton • George Eliot • Giacomo Quarenghi • Gothic Revival Architecture • Henry Mayhew • His Family • Inception • Intelligentsia • Ivan Goncharov • J. Hillis Miller • John Stow • Joseph Brodsky • Leo Tolstoy • Literary Realism • Literature • Lubok • Marquis de Custine • Martin Chuzzlewit • Mary Shelley • Melodrama • Memoir • Metonymy • Mikhail Bakhtin • Mikhail Lermontov • Mir iskusstva • narrative • Ned Buntline • Neoclassical architecture • nevsky prospect • newspaper • Nikolai Gogol • Nikolai Leskov • Northern Bee • Nostalgia • Oblomov • On the Eve • Osip Mandelstam • Otechestvennye Zapiski • Palace Square • Parody • picturesque • Poetry • Potboiler • preservationist • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics • Prose • Radical chic • Raznochintsy • Renaissance Revival architecture • Rococo • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Rubinstein • Russian architecture • Russian culture • Russian Literature • Silver Age • Superiority (short story) • The Bronze Horseman (poem) • The Goths • The Idiot • The Machine in the Garden • The Other Hand • Tsarskoye Selo • Urban legend • V. • Vissarion Belinsky • Vladimir Nabokov • Vladimir Odoyevsky • Vladimir Stasov • Winter Palace • Woe from Wit • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18761-4 / 0691187614
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18761-7 / 9780691187617