Author(s): Susanne Fusso, Priscilla Meyer
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 306
City: Evanston
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
