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Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781644696989 |
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Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
Publication date: | 11/23/2021 |
Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History |
Pages: | 264 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d) |
About the Author
Lyudmila Parts is Professor of Russian at McGill University(Montreal). She is the author of In Search of the True Russia. The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse (2018); The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic (2008); and the editor of The Russian 20th Century Short Story: A Critical Companion (2009). She has published articles on Karamzin, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, contemporary authors, symbolic geography, and Russian travelogue.
Table of Contents
ContributorsNote on Transliteration and Translation
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts
Part One. The Life of Service
Writer and Chinovnik: The Case of I. A. Goncharov
Sergei Gus′kov
Writer or Censor: I. A. Goncharov’s Service in the Departments of Censorship, and the Evolution of Professional Ethics for Censors and Writers in Russia, in the 1850s and 1860s
Kirill Zubkov
Part Two. The Challenges of Philosophy
“Oblomovskii Platon”: Platonic Subtexts in Oblomov
Vladimir Ivantsov
Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Unifying Thread of Goncharov’s Trilogy
Victoria Juharyan
Longing, Replacement, and Anti-Economy in Goncharov’s Oblomov
Sonja Koroliov
Part Three. The Challenges of Realism: Traditions and Transgressions
“Shadows, Dead People, and Specters”: Gothic Aesthetics in Ivan Goncharov’s The Precipice
Valeria Sobol
The Queer Nihilist—Queer Time, Social Refusal, and Heteronormativity in Goncharov's The Precipice
Ani Kokobobo and Devin McFadden
Part Four. Author and Imperialist Abroad: Frigate Pallada
“I Avoided the Factual Side . . .”: Fiction and Document in Frigate Pallada
Aleksei Balakin
A Russian Observer Catches the London Eye: Envisioning Imperial Modernity in Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada
Ingrid Kleespies
Who are You Laughing at? Identity, Laughter, and Colonial Discourse in Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada
Lyudmila Parts
Works Cited
Index
What People are Saying About This
“Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century is a much-needed reassessment of this classic Russian writer and our understanding of his place in the canon. Bringing together work by Russian and Western scholars, it allows us to see Goncharov through a variety of contemporary theoretical lenses (such as queer theory and postcolonial studies) while also shedding new light on the writer’s historical moment and how it shaped his career (for example in the interplay between Goncharov’s art and his work as a state servitor and censor). The volume promises to open up significant avenues of research for a new generation of international scholarship on this key figure.”
—Anne Lounsbery, Department Chair, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University
“This volume brings together an international group of outstanding scholars to explore the work of Ivan Goncharov from a wide range of contemporary methodological perspectives. Genre criticism, post-colonial and queer theory, theories of fictionality, literary-institutional and philosophical approaches—all are brilliantly represented in their application to the work of one of the most intriguing literary figures of the age of Russian realism. Goncharov appears to us here not only as a novelist, but as a civil servant, a censor, an author of a travelogue, a memoirist, and a literary critic. The book gives us Goncharov as an author who continues to provoke methodological questions and to open new areas of critical exploration.”
—Ilya Kliger, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University
“The go-to volume in English for new approaches to Goncharov, this important book significantly reevaluates his life, work, and thought. These ten articles reframe the classic Oblomov, unify Goncharov’s novelistic trilogy, bring into focus The Precipice and The Frigate Pallada, and probe his career as public servant and censor. Goncharov emerges with surprising force here as a thinker engaged with the challenges of modernity and reflecting on historical and cultural legacies of the past. We learn how varieties of reserve, resistance and desire shape his artistic and existential choices as he negotiates contemporary social, professional and literary pressures, and how both his professional and literary careers were mangled in the jaws of the 1860s. While Goncharov’s contemporaries often poorly understood the significance of his work and saw it as outmoded, this volume identifies multiple currents in it that pull deeply towards the future and illuminates Goncharov as a quiet prophet of unconventionality.”
—Sara Dickinson, Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, Universityof Genoa