
Empire from a Distance
Images of Russians, Russia and the Soviet Union in Texts of Culture
Harrassowitz Verlag
Published on 28. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 242 pages
978-3-447-12396-9 (ISBN)
Description
Empire from a Distance
examines images of Russians, Russia and the Soviet Union in texts of culture. The volume is focused on a cultural perspective, including both historical and contemporary issues. Culture, on the other hand, encompasses, above all, a particularly intriguing area that goes beyond the phenomena of the so-called high culture. Instead of a thousandth interpretation of the works of Russian prose masters from the nineteenth century, the authors offer a fascinating journey through the Eastern cultural
topoi
manifested in the world of memes or comic book superheroes. There is no shortage of in-depth analyses of individual film titles, excellent comparative studies (both of two reporters and of entire Polish-Spanish cultural configurations), as well as intriguing and unorthodox religious scholarly threads. All this makes reading the book an invigorating and compelling experience.
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Series
Herausgegeben Ljubov Bugaeva (Sankt-Peterburg), Alfred Gall (Mainz), Arkadiusz Lewicki (Wroclaw), Petr Szczepanik (Praha), Izabela Surynt (Wroclaw) und Marek Zybura (Wroclaw)
13
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
27 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-447-12396-9 (9783447123969)
DOI
10.13173/9783447123969
Schweitzer Classification