"Tsar and God" and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics / Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov ; translated from Russian by Marcus C. Levitt, David Budgen, and Liv Bliss ; edited by Marcus C. Levitt.

Other author/creatorZhivov, V. M.
Other author/creatorLevitt, Marcus C., 1954-
Other author/creatorBudgen, D. (David)
Other author/creatorBliss, Liv.
SeriesArs Rossika
Ars Rossika. ^A1154515
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LanguageTranslated from the Russian.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012285372
ISBN9781936235490
ISBN9781618111241 (ebk.)

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