Mapping St. Petersburg by Julie A Buckler
Traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a 'conceptual hierarchy' to a living cultural system. By favouring noncanonical works and 'underdescribed spaces', this book seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St Petersburg - to offer an off-center view of a less familiar urban landscape.
[Mapping StPetersburg] challenges the enduring myth of the city's uniqueness by exploring its ordinariness, as depicted in "middlebrow" fiction and non-fictional sources, uncovering a rich body of material that in itself should prove invaluable to researchers in a number of disciplines. -- Lindsey Hughes Times Literary Supplement [Buckler] conveys very effectively what many writers have felt about the city--its elusively cerebral characters, its insubstantiality verging on evanescence. -- Catriona Kelly Russian Review [Buckler] offers a useful, thematically organized synthesis of interesting writing on St. Petersburg, many of them otherwise inaccessible to anglophone readers. -- Stephen Lovell American Historical Review [A] brilliant and intriguing exercise in urban textology... [Buckler] conveys the sense of complexity and mystery that defines, and always has defined, Saint Petersburg. -- Cynthia Hyla Whittaker Bookforum
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".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691113494 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691113491 |
| Title | Mapping St. Petersburg |
| Author | Julie A Buckler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2005-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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