“…Les Lettres d'un voyageur russe (1791-1801) fut le premier récit de voyage littéraire jamais publié en Russie et l'œuvre principale de Nikolaï Karamzine (1766-1826), figure phare du sentimentalisme et premier grand historien de son pays. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Gothic Prelude: Nikolai Karamzin’s “The Island of Bornholm” -- 2. In Search of the Russian Middle Ages: The Livonian Tales of the 1820s -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648 -- Speсtacularity before the "Renaissance" of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy -- Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations -- Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- "Dressed for life's short comedy": Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare's Plays -- The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes - Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal -- The King as a "Maker" of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV -- War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances -- Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria -- Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling's Philosophy -- The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception -- Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin -- Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky -- The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco -- Chico Buarque's Gota d'água, uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 -- From theatrum mundi to Theatricality -- Notes on Contributors…”