Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays

by Robert A. Maguire (Editor)

Overview

The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691013268
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	05/21/1995
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Abbreviations	xii
	Introduction: The Legacy of Criticism	3
1.	Gogol and the Devil	55
2.	Burnt to Ashes	103
3.	The Evolution of Gogol's Art	133
4.	"The Nose"	155
5.	Gogol's Inspector General and the Comedy of Aristophanes	199
6.	The Inspector General: Structure and Problems	215
7.	How Gogol's "Overcoat" Is Made	267
8.	About Gogol's "Overcoat"	293
9.	The Technique of the Comic in Gogol	323
10.	The "All-Seeing Eye" in Gogol	375
	Men, Women, and Match-makers	390
	Bibliography	405
	Index of Names	407
	Index of Titles of Gogol's Works	412

Editorial Reviews

In putting together this extremely useful volume, Robert Maguire has pursued a complex set of aims—to illumilnate Gogol's art in ways that must be a novel for readers who do not know Russian, to represent the principal approaches of Russian twentieth-century criticism, and at the same time to cover all of Gogol's major writings. These aims are brilliantly achieved, and it is not only the nonspecialists who will find te book stimulating . . . Maguire's work as a translator and editor is exemplary.

The Russian Review

"In putting together this extremely useful volume, Robert Maguire has pursued a complex set of aims—to illumilnate Gogol's art in ways that must be a novel for readers who do not know Russian, to represent the principal approaches of Russian twentieth-century criticism, and at the same time to cover all of Gogol's major writings. These aims are brilliantly achieved, and it is not only the nonspecialists who will find te book stimulating . . . Maguire's work as a translator and editor is exemplary."—The Russian Review

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