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Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov'.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070101
Author:Andrew, Joe

Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov'. By J. Douglas Clayton. (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 2004. xiii+220 pp. 60.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8101-1938-3.

For very obvious anniversarial reasons, Pushkin studies have seen a considerable rise in their fortunes since 1999 and all that--not that they were ever really in the doldrums, of course. The very welcome appearance of J. Douglas Clayton's excellent monograph on Boris Godunov highlights, however, one of the central anomalies of ...

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