Boris Godunov: Transposition of a Russian Theme by Caryl Emerson (American, b.1944).
First Edition published by Indiana University Press, 12.22.1986.
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies.
The tale of Boris Godunov - tsar, usurper, tsarecide dating from the early 17th century Time of Troubles, inspired three major 19th-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, in drama by Alexander Pushkin, and in opera by Modest Mussorgsky, each, being was a vehicle for a Russian concept of genre, in opposition to European models: German historiography, French melodrama, and Italian opera. Caryl Emerson explores these versions of the Boris Tale, the context of their genesis, and their complex interrelationships.
Caryl Emerson is an American literary critic, slavist and translator. Emerson was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Princeton University from 1988 until her retirement in 2015. From 1980 to 1987 she was a professor of Russian Literature at Cornell.

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