Mapping St. Petersburg Imperial Text and Cityshape

Name: Mapping St. Petersburg Imperial Text and Cityshape
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ISBN: 9780691130323

ISBN-10: 0691130329

ISBN-13: 9780691130323

Edition: 2005

Authors: Julie A. Buckler

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Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast uncharted territory in between. In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system--a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it.By favoring noncanonical works and "underdescribed spaces," Buckler seeks to revise the literary…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Julie Buckler is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia".



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Petersburg Eclecticism, Part I: City as Text



Petersburg Eclecticism, Part II: Literary Form and Cityshape



Armchair Traveling: Russian Literary Guides to St. Petersburg



Stories in Common: Urban Legends in St. Petersburg



Literary Centers and Margins: Palaces, Dachas, Slums, and Industrial Outskirts



Meeting in the Middle: Provincial Visitors to St. Petersburg



The City's Memory: Public Graveyards and Textual Repositories


Conclusion: Timely Remembering and the Tricentennial Celebration


Notes


Bibliography


Index