Gogol's crime and punishment : an essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead souls /

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"This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel "Dead Souls" that even inspired a staging of "Dead Souls" at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heftrich, Urs (Author)
Other Authors: Swann, Joseph (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2022.
Series:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Subjects:
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, > 1809-1852. > Mertvye dushi.
Mertvye dushi (Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
Allegory.
Banality of evil.
Dead Souls.
Epic.
Ethics.
Nikolai Gogol.
Russian literature.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil
  • Part One: Chichikov's Prehistory
  • Ethos and Epic
  • The Ground Plan of Dead Souls
  • The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited
  • Part Two: Chichikov's Crime
  • On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense
  • The Five Faces of Lying
  • In the Shadow Realm of Lies
  • Part Three: Chichikov's Punishment
  • Judgment and Rumor
  • The Five Acts of the Drama
  • Ethos and Epic: Chichikov's Crime and Punishment.

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