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Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Boris Godunov Transposition of a Russian Theme - Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies Author:Caryl Emerson The tale of Boris Godunov -- tsar, usurper, tsarecide -- dating from the early seventeenth-century Time of Troubles, inspired three major nineteenth-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, in drama by Alexander Pushkin, and in opera by Modest Musorgsky. Each of these famous creations was a vehicle for generic innova... more »tion, in which a specifically Russian concept of genre was asserted in opposition to the reigning European models: German historiography, French melodrama, and Italian opera. Within a Bakhtinian framework, Caryl Emerson explores these three versions of the Boris Tale, the context of their genesis, and their complex interrelationships.« less