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Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Ser.: Essays on Gogol : Logos and the Russian Word by Priscilla Meyer (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-100810111918
ISBN-139780810111912
eBay Product ID (ePID)214780
Product Key Features
Number of Pages302 Pages
Publication NameEssays on Gogol : Logos and the Russian Word
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
SubjectRussian & Former Soviet Union
TypeTextbook
AuthorPriscilla Meyer
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesStudies in Russian Literature and Theory Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"A truly worthy collection of essays . . . succeeds in placing Gogol' in multiple literary and philosophical traditions, and it definitely indicates some new ways of reading one of Russia's most ambiguous writers." --Andrew Wachtel, Slavic Review, "A truly worthy collection of essays . . . succeeds in placing Gogol' in multiple literary and philosophical traditions, and it definitely indicates some new ways of reading one of Russia's most ambiguous writers." --Andrew Wachtel, Slavic Review, "A magnificent collection of fourteen papers which encompass all that was Gogol's world. Here we have a work of textural scholarship which will set the tone and the course for future Gogolian researchers." -- New England Review of Books
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments A Key to Titles of Gogol's Works Introduction 1. The Face of Recent Gogol Scholarship 2. The Logos of Gogol Works Cited in Introduction Being Buried Alive; or Gogol in 1973 Andrei Bitov Around "The Nose" Sergei Bocharov The "Thing-in-Itself" in Gogol's Aesthetics: A Reading of the Dikanka Stories John Kopper False Pretenders and the Spiritual City: "A May Night" and "The Overcoat" Priscilla Meyer Gogol's Poetics of Petrification Iurii Mann Khlestakov as Representative of Petersburg in The Inspector General Duffield White Gogol's "The Portrait": The Simultaneity of Madness, Naturalism, and the Supernatural Robert Louis Jackson The Landscape of Arabesques Susanne Fusso The Bird Troika and the Chariot of the Soul: Plato and Gogol Mikhail Weiskopf Artificiality and Nature in Gogol's Dead Souls Katherine Lahti The Death of Gogolian Polyphony: Selected Comments on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz Rereading Gogol's Miswritten Book: Notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends Alexander Zholkovsky Distended Discourse: Gogol, Jean Paul, and the Poetics of Elaboration Cathy Popkin Gogol's Parables of Explanation: Nonsense and Prosaics Gary Saul Morson
SynopsisThese fourteen essays reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary character of Russian literature research in general and of the study of Gogol in particular, focusing on specific works, Gogol's own character, and the various approaches to aesthetic, religious, and philosophical issues raised by his writing.
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