Research Catalog

Title

"Tsar and God" and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics / Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov ; translated from Russian by Marcus C. Levitt, David Budgen, and Liv Bliss. ; edited by Marcus C. Levitt.

Author

Uspenskiĭ, B. A. (Boris Andreevich)

Publication

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zhivov, V. M.
• Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-
• Budgen, D. (David)
• Bliss, Liv.

Description

v, 272 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essays examine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization. -- Book cover.

Series Statement

Ars Rossika

Uniform Title

Ars Rossika.

Subject

• Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia > History
• 1689-1801
• Semiotics > Russia > Religious aspects
• Religion and culture > Russia
• Language and culture > Russia
• Russia > Religion
• Russia > History > 1689-1801

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Tsar and God : semiotic aspects of the sacralization of the monarch in Russia / B.A. Uspenskij and V.M. Zhivov. The sacralization of the monarch in the context of historical and cultural development ; The sacralization of the monarch as a semiotic process ; The civil cult of the monarch in the system of Baroque culture ; Conclusions ; Notes -- Tsar and pretender : Samozvanchestvo or royal imposture in Russia as a cultural-historical phenomenon / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes -- Enthronement in the Russian and Byzantine traditions / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes -- Europe as a metaphor and metonymy (in relation to the history of Russia) / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes -- Cultural reforms in Peter's I's system of transformations / V.M. Zhivov. Cultural reforms and semiotic propaganda ; Innovations in church ritual ; The civil cult ; Parody and blasphemy as rituals of the public sphere ; Blasphemy in the paradigm of the new power ; Concluding remarks ; Notes -- The myth of the state in the Age of Enlightenment and its destruction in late eighteenth-century Russia / V.M. Zhivov ; Notes.

ISBN

• 9781936235490
• 1936235498

OCLC

• 824603250
• SCSB-12270803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library