Napoleon in Russian Cultural Mythology

Molly W. Wesling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2001
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-4982-1 (ISBN)

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Beginning with the earliest days of his meteoric rise to power at the turn of the nineteenth century and continuing into the post-soviet era, Napoleon Bonaparte has maintained a peculiar grip on Russian popular and literary imagination. Heralded as the Messiah, condemned as the Antichrist, and lauded as the spirit of the Revolution, Napoleon invaded Russia at a critical period in its historical development, when ideas about nation and identity were beginning to take form in literature and public debate. Using traditional methods and tools of literary analysis, this book examines the figure of Napoleon in the context of uniquely Russian paradigms and myths. It analyzes the motifs, images, and plots that underlie the ongoing process of the mythologization of Napoleon and demonstrates how the speaking terms in which Russians regaled this outsider, at various moments and in different contexts, expose strategies Russians used in common to fashion their own self-image and that of their nation.

The Author: Molly W. Wesling received her Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published articles on nineteenth-century Russian and Polish literature.

Reihe/Serie	The Age of Revolution and Romanticism ; 29
Reihe/Serie	The Age of Revolution and Romanticism ; 29
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8204-4982-2 / 0820449822
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-4982-1 / 9780820449821
Zustand	Neuware