Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

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. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 A Key to Titles of Gogol’s Works Mentioned in the Articles......Page 12 1. The Face of Recent Gogol Scholarship......Page 16 2. The Logos of Gogol......Page 20 Andrei Bitov. Being Buried Alive; or, Gogol in 1973......Page 29 Sergei Bocharov. Around “The Nose”......Page 34 John Kopper. The “Thing-in-Itself” in Gogol’s Aesthetics: A Reading of the Dikanka Stories......Page 55 Priscilla Meyer. False Pretenders and the Spiritual City: “A May Night” and “The Overcoat”......Page 78 Iurii Mann: Gogol’s Poetics of Petrification......Page 90 Duffield White: Khlestakov as Representative of Petersburg in The Inspector General......Page 104 Robert Louis Jackson. Gogol’s “The Portrait”: The Simultaneity of Madness, Naturalism, and the Supernatural......Page 120 Susanne Fusso. The Landscape of Arabesques......Page 127 Mikhail Weiskopf. The Bird Troika and the Chariot of the Soul: Plato and Gogol......Page 141 Katherine Lahti. Artificiality and Nature in Gogol’s Dead Souls......Page 158 Frederick T. Griffiths, Stanley J. Rabinowitz. The Death of Gogolian Polyphony: Selected Comments on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends......Page 173 Alexander Zholkovsky. Rereading Gogol’s Miswritten Book: Notes on Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends......Page 187 Cathy Popkin. Distended Discourse: Gogol, Jean Paul, and the Poetics of Elaboration......Page 200 Gary Saul Morson. Gogol’s Parables of Explanation: Nonsense and Prosaics......Page 215 Notes on the Contributors......Page 255 Notes......Page 258 Index......Page 300