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

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...

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1. Verfasser: Heftrich, Urs 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Swann, Joseph (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: Boston Academic Studies Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures, and history
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Zusammenfassung: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
"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 meticulously laying bare its structure. The first part of the monograph is dedicated to one section of Gogol's novel that has been neglected by virtually all critics - a clue that leads to a strictly ethical reading of Gogol's epic. Gogol, as it emerges, constructed "Dead Souls" strictly according to a moral pattern. It is amazing to discover how flawlessly "Dead Souls" is built in this regard. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics"--
Beschreibung:xxvii, 265 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781644697627

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