Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word

by Susanne Fusso, Priscilla Meyer

Overview

These 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810110090
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1992
Series:	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Edition description:	1
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

SUSANNE FUSSO is a professor in the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol (Stanford, 1993). She is the translator and editor of A Russian Prince in the Soviet State: Hunting Stories, Letters from Exile, and Military Memoirs (2005) and coeditor of Essays on Karolina Pavlova (2001) and Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word (1994), all published by Northwestern University Press.

PRISCILLA MEYER is Professor of Russian at Wesleyan University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
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 

Editorial Reviews

"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


"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

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