Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov

by J.Douglas Clayton

In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Here we see how the play marks a sharp break with the Decembrists and Pushkin's own youthful liberalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810119382
• ISBN13: 9780810119383
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher