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.

Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Uspenskiĭ, Boris Andreevich
Other Authors:	Zhivov, V. M., Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-, Budgen, D. (David), Bliss, Liv
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Russian
Published:	Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
Series:	Ars Rossika.
Subjects:	Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia > History. Orthodox Eastern Church > History. Orthodox Eastern Church 1689-1801 Semiotics > Russia > Religious aspects. Religion and culture > Russia. Language and culture > Russia. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union. Language and culture Religion Religion and culture Semiotics > Religious aspects Kultursemiotik Kulturelles System Russia > Religion > History. Russia > History > 1689-1801. Russia Russland History Essays.
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Table of 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.

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.

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