TY  - BOOK
AU  - UspenskiÄ­,Boris Andreevich
AU  - Zhivov,V.M.
AU  - Levitt,Marcus C.
AU  - Budgen,D.
AU  - Bliss,Liv
TI  - Tsar and God and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics
T2  - Ars Rossika
SN  - 1618111248
AV  - P99.37.R8 U83 2012
U1  - 306.0947 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Communication Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion
KW  - Kultursemiotik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturelles System
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - 1689-1801
KW  - Russland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 259) and index; 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
N2  - 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 Russia's cultural development, these essays examine the survival and reconceptualization of Russia's past in later systems, and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. This volume contains important examples of cultural semiotics and indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization
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