Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov Transpositions of a Russian Theme - Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies

Hardback (22 Dec 1986)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The tale of Boris Godunov-tsar, usurper, tsarecide-dating from the early seventeenth-century Time of Troubles, inspired three major nineteenth-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, in drama by Alexander Pushkin, and in opera by Modest Musorgsky. Each of these famous creations was a vehicle for generic innovation, in which a specifically Russian concept of genre was asserted in opposition to the reigning European models: German historiography, French melodrama, and Italian opera. Within a Bakhtinian framework, Caryl Emerson explores these three versions of the Boris Tale, the context of their genesis, and their complex interrelationships.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253312303
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 947.0440924
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 626g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 20mm