Soil and soul : the symbolic world of Russianness / Elena Hellberg-Hirn.
| Author/creator | Hellberg-Hirn, Elena author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Oxon : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge revivals Routledge revivals. ^A1154179 |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Symbolic Communication; The Symbolic World of Russianness; Symbol and Myth; The Mythic Idea; Culture as Symbolic Communication; Self and Other; Sources and Methods; 2 Territorial Symbolism: The Double-Headed Eagle; History in a Nutshell; St George; St Andrew; Split Eagle; Decoding the Eagle; Colour Symbolism; Territorial Marking; Territories and Titles; The Territorial Imperative; Expansion and Colonization; Return of the Eagle; 3 Symbols of the Centre; The Wandering Centre; Moscow: Concentric Structures |
| Contents | Petersburg: Centre and Periphery; Modernism and Polarization; The Prestige of the Centre; Rival Centres; Red Square; Periphery as Opposition; 4 The Tsar: Father to the People; Saintly Princes; Tsar and God; The Monomakh Crown; The Pious Ruler; Hero and Father; The Era of Empresses; Foreign Metaphor; Tsar and People; The Last Tsar; 5 Orthodox Christianity: The Collective Spirit; The Legend of Choice; Pagan Heritage; Byzantine Connections; Unifying Power; The Third Rome; Western Influences; The Schism; Vehicles of Meaning; Icons: Windows to Heaven; The Trinity; Virgin of Vladimir; Holy Russia |
| Contents | MillenniumChrist the Saviour; 6 Mother Russia: Soil and Soul; Beloved Motherland; Feminine Russia; Concentrated Matriarchy; Sacrifice; Hills of Heroes; Womanhood and Nationhood; Soil and Soul; The Face of Russia; 7 Ethnic Symbolism: Real Russianness?; Folk Tradition; The Mythic and the Aesthetic; Folk Dress; Heaven and Earth; National Food; Ritual Food; Food as Fantasy; Bread and Salt; Protected Space; Easter Eggs; Kissing Customs; The History of Vodka; Drinking Habits; Drinking Tea; Ethnicity and Nationality; 8 Russian Stereotypes; National Character; Russkii Narod; Collective Body |
| Contents | What's in a Name?We and Others; Purity of the Nation; Language and Ethnicity; Russian Time and Space; Money and Wealth; Utopian Worlds; 9 Creation of the Nation: A Symbolic Discourse; The Russian Idea; Creation of History; Protective Formula; The Slavophile Utopia; The Russian Home; Narrating the Nation; The Narod in Collections; Museum and Empire; The Intelligentsia; National Culture; Pushkin and Co.; Whose Project?; The Eurasian Temptation; 10 Understanding Russianness; Ambivalent Space; The Nesting Principle; Enigmatic Russia; Current Discourse; Cultural Archaeology; National Regeneration |
| Contents | Parts anWholes understandingng?; Recommended Reading; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index; Acknowledgements |
| General note | First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780429026263 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0429026269 (electronic bk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |