Main entry:

Buckler, Julie A.

Title & Author:

Mapping St. Petersburg : imperial text and cityshape / Julie A. Buckler.

Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2005.

Description:

364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-353) and index.
Petersburg eclecticism, part I : city as text -- Petersburg eclecticism, part II : literary form and cityshape -- Armchair traveling : Russian literary guides to St. Petersburg -- Stories in common : urban legends in St. Petersburg -- Literary centers and margins : palaces, dachas, slums, and industrial outskirts -- Meeting in the middle : provincial visitors to St. Petersburg -- The city's memory : public graveyards and textual repositories -- Conclusion : timely remembering and the tricentennial celebration.
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Summary:

"In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system - a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691113491 (alk. paper)
9780691113494 (alk. paper)
0691130329
9780691130323

Subject:

18.53 Russian literature.
Intellectual life
Literature
Literatur
Kulturelle Identität
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Russisch.
Letterkunde.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) Intellectual life.
Saint Petersburg (Russia) In literature.
Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg
Sankt Petersburg

Holdings:

Location: Library main 235446
Call No.: DK557.B83 2005
Status: Available