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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Petersburg myth"”.
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The Petersburg Text of Russian Cinema in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Eras
… thesis has two points of departure: firstly the Petersburg myth, which is here defined as reversible or ambiguous since it includes both an eschatological and a cosmogonic aspect; and secondly, the Petersburg literary text as defined in works by Vladimir Toporov. During the twentieth century, the …
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City of Stone: The Materiality of St Petersburg in Print, c. 1703-1830
As print culture flourished in St Petersburg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an image emerged of the young capital as an elegant, modern city, dressed in stone. Though there has been much scholarship on this imagery, it has focused on the depiction and organisation of urban space or has …