Exploring Gogol / Robert A. Maguire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maguire, Robert, Author.

Series:

Studies of the Harriman Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852--Criticism and interpretation.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 409)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad artistic and intellectual context, Russian and European, with special attention to German philosophy, the visual arts, and Orthodox Christian theology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Three Notes to the Reader

Major Events in Gogol's Life

Works by Gogol Cited in the Text and Notes

1. Bounded Space

2. Displacement: "Old-World Landowners

3. Equilibrium as Place: "The Two Ivans"

4. Place Within: "Diary of a Madman

5. Place as Nature

6. Some Sources of Place

7. The Art of Seeing

8. Rome

9. Imitation: "The Portrait"

10. An Anxious Eye

11. From Eye to Word

12. The Word in Dead Souls

13. The Retrieval of the Past

14. Word Wielders

15. The Search for a Language of Self

16. The Failure of the Word

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-390) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804765329

0804765324

OCLC:

1178770267