Empire from a Distance

Images of Russians, Russia and the Soviet Union in Texts of Culture

248 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Studien zur Multikulturalität / Herausgegeben Ljubov Bugaeva (Sankt-Peterburg), Alfred Gall (Mainz), Arkadiusz Lewicki (Wrocław), Petr Szczepanik (Praha), Izabela Surynt (Wrocław) und Marek Zybura (Wrocław)
• ISBN: 9783447123969
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2025
• Genre: Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte
• Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Herausgegeben von: Arkadiusz Lewicki, Jedrzej Morawiecki