The Creation of Nikolai Gogol /

The Creation of Nikolai Gogol / / Donald Fanger.

Nikolai Gogol, Russia's greatest comic writer, is a literary enigma. His masterworks--"The Nose," "The Overcoat," The Inspector General, Dead Souls--have attracted contradictory labels over the years, even as the originality of his achievement continues to defy exact explana...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Fanger, Donald,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1979
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • PART I. Approaches
  • 1. The Gogol Problem: Perspectives from Absence
  • 2. The Sense of Absence: Immediate Contexts
  • PART II. Improvising a Vocation
  • 3. Beginnings: Miscellaneous Writings
  • 4. Beginnings: Fiction
  • 5. Confronting a Public, I
  • PART III. Embracing a Calling
  • 6. Epic Intentions
  • 7. Dead Souls: The Mirror and the Road
  • 8. Confronting a Public, II
  • PART IV. The Surviving Presence
  • 9. The Gogolian Universe: Notes Toward a Theory
  • 10. Sense, Shape, End
  • NOTES / INDEX
  • Notes
  • Index

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