Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies) | Rare and modern books | Emerson Caryl
Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies) | Rare and modern books | Emerson Caryl
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- Author
- Emerson Caryl
- Publishers
- Indiana University Press, 1986
- Keyword
- musica
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
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8vo, ex library with stamps and stickers, ow. good. no dust jacket, 272pp. Summary: 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
