Gogol’s Crime and Punishment : : An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls / / Urs Heftrich.
This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel’s meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. T...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil
- Part One: Chichikov’s Prehistory
- 1. Ethos and Epic
- 2. The Ground Plan of Dead Souls
- 3. The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited
- Part Two: Chichikov’s Crime
- 4. On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense
- 5. The Five Faces of Lying
- 6. In the Shadow Realm of Lies
- Part Three: Chichikov’s Punishment
- 7. Judgment and Rumor
- 8. The Five Acts of the Drama
- 9. Ethos and Epic: Chichikov’s Crime and Punishment
- List of Sources for Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index