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Gogol's Crime and Punishment : An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls / Urs Heftrich ; translated by Joseph Swann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heftrich, Urs, author.
- Series:
- Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
- Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852. Mertvye dushi.
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-64469-764-5
- 1-64469-763-7
- OCLC:
- 1286072956
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