Chekhov for the 21st century / edited by Carol Apollonio, Angela Brintlinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flath, Carol A. (Carol Apollonio)

Brintlinger, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Chekhov for the twenty-first century

Chekhov for the XXI century

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica Publishers, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction / Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger

Space. The spaces between the places: Chekhov's "Without a title" and the art of being (out) there / Cathy Popkin

Chekhov's The duel, or how to colonize responsibly / Edyta Bojanowska

Circuses and cemeteries: chekhovian topoi / Vladimir Kataev

Time. Being as event, or the drama of Dasein: Chekhov's The three sisters / Svetlana Evdokimova

Classical ideas of fate in Chekhov's dramaturgy / Anatoly Sobennikov

The death of the hero in Chekhov's world / Igor Sukhikh

Nabokov's debt to Chekhov's art of memory / Jerome Katsell

Person. Of interpretation and stolen kisses: from poetics to metapoetics in Chekhov's "The kiss" / Michael Finke

Reading Chekhov through Meyerhold's eyes / Galina Rylkova

The marriage of Figaro, the marriage of Lopakhin: The hero's revolt / Anna Muza

Cultural kenosis in Chekhov's "The wife" / Nina Wieda

Word. "Put yourself in the place of a corncrake": Chekhov's poetics of reconciliation / Radislav Lapushin

The psychology of Chekhov's creative method and generative poetics / Andrei Stepanov

Chekhov's style in light of general systems thinking: The Steppe as a positional masterpiece / Vera Zubarev

Transpositions. The Cherry orchard in the twenty-first century: new adaptations and versions / Ronald Meyer

Sisters as a case study for "making foreign theater or making theater foreign" / Cynthia Marsh

Gained in translation: Chekhov's "Lady" / Carol Apollonio

Uncle Vanya: life in time (reception and interpretation) / Margarita Odesskaya

Chekhov in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute / Nena Couch

"A cigar in the fresh air": Chekhov's Yasha lives! / Angela Brintlinger

Remixing Chekhov / Sasha Waters Freyer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780893573928

0893573922

OCLC:

814982227