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Preserving Petersburg

History, Memory, Nostalgia

von: Helena Goscilo, Stephen M. Norris
9,49 €
Verlag:	Indiana University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	13.06.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780253027894
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	264

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Titelbeschreibung

For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation, a literal and imaginative place where Russians can commune with idealized pasts. Preserving Petersburg represents a significant departure from traditional representations. By moving beyond the "Petersburg text" created by canonized writers and artists, the contributors to this engrossing volume trace the ways in which St. Petersburg has become a "museum piece," embodying history, nostalgia, and recourse to memories of the past. The essays in this attractively illustrated volume trace a process of preservation that stretches back nearly three centuries, as manifest in the works of noted historians, poets, novelists, artists, architects, filmmakers, and dramatists.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction: Preserving Petersburg / Helena Goscilo and Stephen M. Norris
1. St. Petersburg and the Art of Survival / William Craft Brumfield 2. The City's Memory: Texts of Preservation and Loss in Imperial St. Petersburg / Julie Buckler 3. Unsaintly St. Petersburg? Visions and Visuals / Helena Goscilo 4. A Tale of Two Cities: Ancient Rome and St. Petersburg in Mandelstam's Poetry / Zara Torlone 5. Petersburg in the Poetry of the Russian Emigration / Vladimir Khazan 6. Multiethnic St. Petersburg: The Late Imperial Period / Steven Duke 7. Leningrad Culture under Siege (1941–1944) / Cynthia Simmons 8. Cultural Capital and Cultural Heritage: St. Petersburg and the Arts of Imperial Russia / Richard Stites 9. Strolls Through Postmodern Petersburg: Celebrating the City in 2003 / Stephen M. Norris
List of Contributors Index

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Innovative perspectives on how St. Petersburg's rich cultural heritage is preserved and remembered

Autorenportrait

Helena Goscilo is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her many books include Russia Women Culture, edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1996), and Anastasia Verbitskaia's Keys to Happiness, translated and edited with Beth Holmgren (IUP, 1999).
Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812–1945 and editor (with Zara Torlone) of Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (IUP, 2008).

Unpublished endorsement

An interesting and important contribution to existing scholarship on St. Petersburg's myth, cult, and text. —Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College A truly innovative contribution to the scholarship on Petersburg . . . The volume should be read by all serious Slavic scholars.