The uncensored Boris Godunov : the case for Pushkin's original comedy, with annotated text and translation /

Boris Godunov has long puzzled readers both Russian and non-Russian. The authors of this study suggest why: because the later version of Boris Godunov came into being not through a process of the writer's own artistic maturation, as is generally assumed, but rather as the result of censorship a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunning, Chester S. L., 1949-
Other Authors: Emerson, Caryl, Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006], ©2006
Madison : c2006
Madison : ©2006
Madison : [2006]
Series:Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning
  • The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his comedy / Chester Dunning
  • The tragic fate of Pushkin's comedy / Chester Dunning
  • The world of laughter in Pushkin's comedy / Sergei Fomichev
  • Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson
  • The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson
  • Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • Introduction : reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • 1 The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning
  • 2. The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his Comedy / Chester Dunning
  • 3. The tragic fate of Pushkin's Comedy / Chester Dunning
  • 4. The world of laughter in Pushkin's Comedy / Sergei Fomichev
  • 5. Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson
  • 6. The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson
  • Concluding remarks : Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev
  • Notes to Pushkin's Comedy / Chester Dunning, Lidiia Lotman and Antony Wood.
  • Introduction : reconsidering history and expanding the canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • 1 The problem of Boris Godunov : a review of interpretations and the so-called canonical text / Chester Dunning
  • 2. The exiled poet-historian and the creation of his Comedy / Chester Dunning
  • 3. The tragic fate of Pushkin's Comedy / Chester Dunning
  • 4. The world of laughter in Pushkin's Comedy / Sergei Fomichev
  • 5. Tragedy, comedy, carnival, and history on stage / Caryl Emerson
  • 6. The ebb and flow of influence : muffling the comedic in the move toward print / Caryl Emerson
  • Concluding remarks : Boris Godunov and the Russian literary canon / Caryl Emerson and Chester Dunning
  • Comedy about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepiev
  • Notes to Pushkin's Comedy / Chester Dunning, Lidiia Lotman and Antony Wood.